Baader Bank hires Cord Kunze who assumes responsibilities as Managing Director within the firm's Capital Markets Team as of May 1st 2017. The 46-year-old brings a wealth of experience from numerous important German and international equity capital markets transactions such as IPOs, capital increases, placements and convertible bond issues for companies, financial institutions and private equity companies. Mr. Kunze, together with the team, will continue to expand the Capital Markets division with acquisitions, structuring and implementation of corporate transactions. He will report directly to Christian Bacherl, member of the board. Mr. Kunze joins Baader Bank from HSBC where he held the position as Managing Director in Frankfurt am Main. He played a major role in the repositioning of the Equity Capital Markets business of HSBC in Germany. Prior to that, he spent several years working for Equity Capital Markets /Equity Corporate Finance at Credit Suisse. He started his Equity Capital Markets career, more than 17 years ago at Dresdner Kleinwort. Mr. Kunze is a graduate Business Engineer from KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and holds an MBA of RSM Rotterdam School of Management.