NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2026--
Vistina, an investment bank specializing in strategic advisory, structured credit, and asset-based financing and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hoplon Capital, today announced that Jeanine Arnold has joined as Senior Managing Director and Head of Ratings Advisory. Her appointment significantly expands the firm’s capabilities and advisory efforts in capital structure and credit ratings.
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In this newly created role, Ms. Arnold will spearhead the buildout of Vistina’s independent ratings advisory business, enhancing the firm’s ability to support Vistina-led transactions, as well as issuers, sponsors, and investors pursuing innovative private and structured credit solutions. Her mandate includes advancing investment-grade, asset-based and innovative financing strategies, advising on esoteric and non-traditional asset classes, and shaping ratings strategy for high-growth and transformational transactions.
“We are thrilled to welcome Jeanine to Vistina and Hoplon,” said Robert Arsov, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Hoplon Capital. “As demand for investment-grade and structured solutions accelerates in private markets, Jeanine’s expertise in navigating complex ratings methodologies will help clients unlock new financing opportunities and achieve stronger outcomes. Her appointment reflects our commitment to building differentiated advisory capabilities across private credit, structured finance, and ratings.”
“I’m deeply honored to join Vistina’s dynamic, solutions-driven team, which is well positioned to help clients navigate the growing gap between financing innovation and evolving ratings frameworks,” said Ms. Arnold. “I am excited to partner with clients to shape durable ratings outcomes and unlock capital across increasingly complex markets.”
Ms. Arnold brings more than two decades of ratings and credit leadership. Before joining Vistina, she served as Global Co-Head and Head of EMEA Leveraged Finance at Moody’s, where she oversaw leveraged finance ratings, research, and market engagement. She was also a senior member of Moody’s Global Private Credit leadership team, and, in 2025, she chaired the Private Credit Markets Insight Committee. Her earlier experience includes roles at Fitch Ratings, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Royal Bank of Scotland. She began her career at Ernst & Young as a Chartered Accountant.
About Vistina
Vistina, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hoplon Capital, is an investment bank specializing in strategic advisory, structured credit and asset-based financing, and capital structure and credit ratings advisory. Brokerage services offered through Vistina Advisory, LLC and Vistina Structured Credit Advisory, LLC, SEC-registered broker-dealers and members of FINRA and SIPC. https://brokercheck.finra.org/
About Hoplon Capital
Hoplon Capital is a financial services holding company. Through its integrated business units, Hoplon aims to enable investors in achieving excess risk-adjusted returns and to assist corporate clients in accomplishing their strategic and financial goals with innovative structured financing, first-rate advisory, and transformative insurance solutions. For more information on Hoplon, please visit www.hoploncapital.com.
Jeanine Arnold, Senior Managing Director and Head of Ratings Advisory, Vistina
BUGGENHOUT, Belgium (AP) — A crash between a bus and a train traveling at high speed in northern Belgium killed four people, including two children ages 12 and 15, and injured five other children, officials said Tuesday.
The injured children were hospitalized in serious condition, said Lisa De Wilde, spokeswoman for the East Flanders public prosecutor’s office. The collision happened at a level crossing during the morning rush hour near the town of Buggenhout, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of the capital, Brussels.
The minibus driver and an escort were killed along with two children, De Wilde said at a news conference. She said that the cause of the crash hadn't been established. Investigators were questioning witnesses and checking security camera footage.
“What we do know is that the barrier was closed and the red light was on,” she said.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene said that the badly damaged bus lay toppled on its side, its front section crushed flat. Forensic experts in protective white suits and wearing gloves were taking photos of the scene. A forensics tent was erected nearby. The train was relatively unscathed.
The train was estimated to be traveling at about 120 kph (75 mph) as it approached the crossing and had “no time to brake," said Frédéric Sacré, a spokesman for Belgian rail operator Infrabel.
“The impact was extremely violent,” Sacré told RTBF public broadcaster.
Federal Police spokesperson An Berger said that the bus driver appeared to have ploughed through the train barrier. Infrabel said that the crossing was working correctly. A security camera there showed that the bus, which had a total of nine people aboard, was still moving when the train hit it.
It’s believed that about 100 passengers were aboard the train and that none of them were hurt. Rail traffic in the area was halted and bus services provided for travelers. Local officials stood for a minute's silence after the news conference.
Children played basketball and rode bicycles at a school not far from the scene in this bucolic town.
In a social media post, Interior Minister Bernard Quintin expressed “great sadness” over “the tragic accident in Buggenhout, where a school bus was struck by a train. My thoughts go out to the victims and their loved ones.”
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Lorne Cook reported from Brussels. Mike Corder contributed to this report from The Hague, Netherlands.
Police tape cordons off a level crossing where a train collided with a van in Buggenhout, Belgium, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Marius Burgelman)
Police and rescue personal work around a level crossing where a train collided with a van in Buggenhout, Belgium, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Marius Burgelman)
Police and rescue personal work around a level crossing where a train collided with a van in Buggenhout, Belgium, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Marius Burgelman)
A vehicle lays on its side next to a house after a collision between a train and a van at a level crossing in Buggenhout, Belgium, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)
Police and residents gather around a level crossing where a train collided with a van in Buggenhout, Belgium, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Marius Burgelman)
This video grab shows rescue workers on the scene of a crash between a train and vehicle in Buggenhout, Belgium, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (VTM via AP)
Rescue workers on the scene of a crash between a train and vehicle in Buggenhout, Belgium, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Koen Baten)
Rescue workers on the scene of a crash between a train and vehicle in Buggenhout, Belgium, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Koen Baten)
Rescue workers on the scene of a crash between a train and vehicle in Buggenhout, Belgium, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Koen Baten)
