Merrill Lynch has shifted its Tokyo-based foreign exchange sales team to Hong Kong as part of an expansion of cross-asset-class structuring. Wu Yue, head of fx sales for Asia, and Samuel Lim, Trevor Rosmarin and Erin Yau, fx marketers, transferred from Tokyo to Hong Kong. The team reports to Samir Atassi, managing director and head of the structured solutions group in Hong Kong, who has been building up and concentrating on regional structuring and sales for Asia out of Hong Kong.