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Moody’s names Kurasaki as team MD

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Keiko Kurasaki was promoted to team managing director in Moody’s Investors Service‘s Structured Finance Group in Tokyo, reporting to Naoki Yamauchi, representative director of Moody’s Japan. Prior to joining Moody’s in 1992 as a research associate, Kurasaki worked at IBM and Nikko Securities.

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