Moody?s Appoints Global Structured Finance Surveillance Coordinator

Moody´s Investors Service announced today the

appointment of Jonathan Polansky, currently Group Managing Director of

the Asset Finance Group, to the newly created position of Structured

Finance Global Surveillance Coordinator. In this role, Polanksy will

work closely with the rating agency´s

surveillance and line of business managers to enhance the monitoring of

outstanding Moody´s-rated structured deals.
"Over the past several years, as the number of

rated deals outstanding has grown rapidly, so has our investment of

resources in the monitoring of those ratings," said Moody´s Executive Vice President Noel

Kirnon. "We have transferred a significant

number of analysts and management resources to surveillance teams

globally, and this latest appointment is another example of our

commitment to this important area."
"Jonathan brings extensive analytic experience

in the structured finance arena to this position," Kirnon added.
Surveillance managers across all structured finance business lines

including asset-backed securities, residential and commercial

mortgage-backed securities, and derivatives will report to Polansky.
Polansky served as an analyst in Moody´s US

Derivatives Group from 1997 to 1999 and rejoined to manage CDO

Surveillance in 2003 following four years as co-head of the Structured

Products Group at Triton Partners LLC. He was promoted to Team Managing

Director in 2005 and to Group Managing Director of Asset Finance in

January 2008.
Prior to joining Moody´s, Polansky analyzed

bank loan portfolios for Loan Pricing Corporation, served as a Vice

President at the Yasuda Trust and Banking Company, and worked as a

middle market lending officer for the Bank of New York. He holds a BA in

Economics from SUNY Binghamton and an MBA in Finance, Corporate

Accounting, and Economics from the William E. Simon School of Business

Administration at the University of Rochester.