Martin Fridson has departed BNP Paribas SA (BNP)’s investment manager as its global credit strategist.

Fridson left BNP Paribas Investment Partners Aug. 15, he said in a telephone interview today. Cesaltine Gregorio, a New York-based spokeswoman for France’s largest bank, confirmed the departure and declined to comment further.

The credit strategist is reviving his FridsonVision debt- research brand and will announce a distribution of content through another organization, he said in the interview. Fridson led Merrill Lynch & Co.’s high-yield strategy group until he left in 2003 to form FridsonVision LLC. At Merrill, he was the top-ranked high-yield analyst for nine straight years in Institutional Investor magazine’s annual poll.

BNP hired Fridson in 2010 after absorbing Fridson Investment Advisors, a joint venture between the strategist and the bank.

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