Soc Gen appoints new head of Asia-Pacific DCM. Laurent Morel, a 21-year Soc Gen man, has been appointed by the firm’s corporate & investment banking arm as its new head of debt capital markets for Asia-Pacific. He replaces Yves Jacob, who moved to Paris to take on his new role as the firm’s Senior Banker in charge of the global relationship with International Financial Institutions – Morel’s previous role. Morel joined Soc Gen back in 1994 after a brief stint at Air France UK. He has served the French bank in various roles since then, including head of global DCM corporate origination and global head of ECM. He will be based in Hong Kong and will report to Patrick Menard, Global Head of Capital Markets, and to Sadia Ricke, Head of Global Finance in Asia Pacific. Societe General Corporate & Investment Banking
HSBC hires new Asia-ex Japan S&T execs. Andrew Maynard, CSLA’s former head of global trading and execution services, has joined HSBC as its new head of sales trading and execution services for the firm’s Asia ex-Japan equities business. Prior to joining CSLA, Maynard spent 16 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he ran the bank’s regional execution services platform. Joining him in Hong Kong are Deutsche Bank’s former Asia-Pac director of Institutional Program sales and trading, Christopher White, and former Barclays director Jonathan Green. Judy Low meanwhile will be heading HSBC’s Asean sales and trading business from Singapore after spending 9 years at Deutsche Bank. Finance Asia
Citi names new Asia Pacific head of public sector banking. David Ratliff, one of Citigroup’s senior execs in Hong Kong, was recently named as the firm’s Asia Pacific head of public sector banking. In the newly created role, Ratliff will take charge of the bank’s Asian corporate and investment banking coverage as well as its markets and securities services coverage of public sector clients. He was previously the firm’s Asia-Pac head of investor sales and relationship management for and Asia-Pac equities head for Citigroup Global Markets. Reuters
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