Morgan Stanley investment bank has appointed Andrew Peel as its head of digital asset markets. Peel is a trading expert with more than a decade worth of experience and has had a focus on cryptocurrencies in the past five years.

Peel joins Credit Suisse, where he ended his 12-year-career as VP of sales and trading innovation, the subject matter expert for cryptocurrencies.

At Morgan Stanley, Peel will be based in Zurich and London. He is a 2001 graduate from Nottingham University Business School with a BA in Business Information Systems. His past jobs include working for Inform8, a proprietor of technology; Lloyds Banking Group as a graduate management trainee, and then to Credit Suisse.