Marianne Ouzone has been named Crédit Agricole CIB’s new head of trade and export credit agency (ECA) multilateral financing syndicate.

Ouzone, who has been with the France-headquartered commercial bank since 2018, was previously global head of trade distribution solutions and portfolio management in the international trade and transaction banking division.

Based in Paris, she will see focus on trade and ECA multilateral financing within Crédit Agricole CIB’s distribution and asset rotation franchise.

She is taking over the trade and export credit agency baton from Lucie Campos Caresmel, who is moving into a new role at the French bank, GTR understands.

Ouzone will report to Laurent Deroy, global head of corporate and leveraged finance distribution, based in London.

“I am proud to take on the leadership of the trade and ECA multilateral financing syndicate at Crédit Agricole CIB at this strategic moment for our industry,” she said.

“By leveraging our team’s expertise and developing tailored structures and solutions to have a global reach to a diverse and broad investor base, we are ideally positioned to support our clients in facing current challenges and seizing new opportunities while managing our balance sheet.”

Ouzone added she was “particularly enthusiastic about contributing to the acceleration of our franchise in this essential asset class”.

Prior to her time at Crédit Agricole CIB, Ouzone worked at Natixis for nearly 14 years across different trade finance roles.

Her recent move follows the November announcement that Thibaut Jean succeeded industry veteran André Gazal as global head of ECA and multilateral financing solutions at the bank.