NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Citigroup ( C/PN ) hired two senior

investment bankers this week, extending a recruitment drive by

its head of banking, Viswas Raghavan.

Aashish Dhakad will start in October in New York as head of

private credit origination for North America as part of Citi's

$25 billion push into private credit with Apollo Global

Management.

Dhakad, who previously worked at Ares Management ( ARES ) and Bank of

America ( BAC ), will report to John McAuley for private credit

origination and Scott Sartorius and Ryan Williams, Citi's

co-heads of leveraged finance on the continent.

Separately, Amit Nayyar was appointed the co-head of tech

investment banking in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa

alongside Yishai Fransis, according to a memo seen by Reuters.

He will start in the fourth quarter.

Nayyar most recently served as JPMorgan Chase's ( JPM ) head of EMEA

fintech and payments coverage investment banking. He previously

worked at Indian payments company Paytm and Goldman Sachs ( GS ).