ASF chief switches to ASIC
A structured finance specialist is one of three new appointments to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.Greg Medcraft, until now executive director of the Australian Securitisation Forum, will join ASIC.Medcraft worked in securitisation at Societe Generale in Sydney through the 1990s and shifted to become global head of securitisation of SG Cowen in New York eight years ago. He returned to Australia in late 2007.A former mayor of Box Hill in Melbourne and Woolhara in Sydney, Medcraft recently secured a seat as a member of the Woolhara council at the election in September.