01/24/2012

NAB currency strategist resigns

The NAB foreign exchange team was recently bolstered by the arrival of Emma Lawson from Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong.

01/22/2012

SGX hires new head of compliance

Mr Seah joins SGX from Standard Chartered Bank, where he was Regional Head, Wholesale Bank Compliance in Singapore and South-East Asia, covering corporate banking products from lending and transaction banking to financial markets and corporate finance, an

01/18/2012

Hong Konger to be new CEO of OCBC‎

The change takes effect April 15, according to a statement to the Singapore exchange yesterday. Conner will remain as a non-executive board director. The bank also appointed Ching Wei Hong to the newly created position of chief operating officer.

01/18/2012

Nomura appoints global head of fixed income

Ashley will be based in London and both appointments are effective immediately, Shibata said in the letter. Keiko Sugai, Nomura’s Tokyo-based spokeswoman, declined to comment.

01/17/2012

HSBC plans to hire tens of thousands every year

HSBC has an employee attrition rate of 10% annually, and replacing those staff forms part of the new hiring, an HSBC spokesman said. HSBC currently employs 296,000 staff globally.

01/17/2012

New CEO for HSBC

The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has appointed Andrew Tilke as the chief executive officer of HSBC Bangladesh

01/13/2012

Pimco Moves Emerging Markets Head to Asia as Region Grows

Ramin Toloui started in Pimco’s Singapore office on Jan. 5, having relocated from the company’s headquarters in Newport Beach, California. The company boosted its Asia-Pacific headcount by 20 percent last year to 140 employees, according to a