Citigroup recently brought aboard Mark Chan, equity derivatives marketer at HSBC in Hong Kong, for a new senior role. Harold Kim, managing director in Asia-Pacific equity derivatives at Citi in Hong Kong, told DW in an e-mail that Chan will be covering Hong Kong and regional banks for retail products, and that additional sales hires are in the works.
Citi has also been putting a hybrid trading desk in place between the debt and equity divisions (DW, 3/24), for which it is planning several hires.
John Ryan, spokesman at HSBC in Hong Kong, did not respond to messages by press time.
