Polansky of Moody’s returns to CDO group

Jonathan Polansky was appointed managing director of Moody’s Investors Service’s CDO group. In that role, Polansky will handle CDO surveillance, plus ratings for synthetic correlation trades and esoteric synthetics. Before the move, which is effective immediately, Polansky was a managing director in the rating agency’s asset-backed commercial paper group since 2005. It also marks a return to derivatives coverage for Polansky, who joined Moody’s derivatives group as an analyst in 1997. In 1999, Polansky left Moody’s to head the structured products group at Triton Partners. Everett Rutan, a senior vice president, will assume Jonathan’s responsibilities in heading up the U.S. ABCP team. He joined Moody’s in 1997, covering term ABS, and moved to the ABCP group in 1998.