Vicky He has rejoined Credit Suisse after leaving the bank in June. She has returned to the same post, head of North Asia loan syndication.
She will report to Terence Chia, head of debt syndicate, Asia Pacific. She also has a dotted reporting line to Lewis Wong, co-head of the Asia Pacific financing group.
A spokesperson from the bank confirmed her return.
He left Credit Suisse this June, just 10 months after joining in the newly-created position. Before that, she was with Standard Chartered as a director in the Greater China and North Asia loan syndicate and distribution team, responsible for the execution of syndicated, event-driven and leveraged buyout transactions across the primary and secondary markets.
She also spent nine years with Bank of America in syndicated loan and leveraged finance as well as corporate banking teams.
SC hires head of securities services for Greater China
Hong Kong-based Kellaway joined the bank on November 11. He reports to Margaret Harwood-Jones, global head of securities services, and Ricky Kaura, regional head of transaction banking for the East.
Kellaway previously worked at Royal Bank of Canada in investor and treasury services, where he was chief operating officer for global client coverage and global client operations. Kellaway has also worked at HSBC and JP Morgan in prime finance, corporate banking and securities services.
Nomura gives Tiwaari new job
Nomura has appointed Abhishek Tiwaari as head of loan capital commitments and syndicate for Asia ex-Japan, a newly created position within the client financing and solutions (CF&S) unit.
Tiwaari will continue to be based in Hong Kong. He will report to Guy Smith, head of debt origination, Asia ex-Japan, and Aadit Seshasayee, head of loans and principal investments, Asia ex-Japan, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia on Tuesday.
Within CF&S, Tiwaari will be responsible for underwriting, syndicating and distributing loan transactions across Asia ex-Japan. He will continue to work closely with the debt origination, investment banking coverage and global markets teams at Nomura, added the memo.
Tiwaari joined the Japanese bank in 2008 as an associate in the DCM team, and has held a number of positions since, according to his LinkedIn profile. His last job was head of acquisition and leveraged finance, Asia ex-Japan ex-Australia. That title no longer exists, but Smith, who joined Nomura last year, will be responsible for the regional acquisition and leveraged finance business.
Nomura created the global CF&S unit last year, combining some parts of the investment banking and global markets teams to provide tailored structured solutions to clients. As a result of the reorganisation, DCM, DCM syndicate, ECM and ECM syndicate functions outside of Japan all sit under CF&S.
John Goff leads Asia ex-Japan CF&S, while Patrice Maffre runs the EMEA office and Lee Olive and Eric Miller co-head the Americas business.
UBS Apac ECM vice chairman makes exit
Andrea Casati, vice-chairman of equity capital markets for Asia Pacific at UBS, left the bank earlier this month, according to a source close to the situation.
Casati had held the job since April 2018, focusing on senior coverage of priority clients in the region.
A UBS spokesperson declined to comment on his departure.
Casati had worked at the Swiss bank from 2003 to 2008 in a number of equities positions in London, before leaving for JP Morgan where he spent eight years. At the US bank, his last job was as head of international syndicate based in Hong Kong, managing teams in both Asia and Europe.
He returned to UBS in May 2017 as a managing director, head of Asia Pacific ECM syndicate, GlobalCapital Asia reported at the time.
Sternby returns to banking with UBS
UBS has hired from insurance company FWD Group to fill the position of head of financial institutions group for Asia Pacific.
Petter Sternby will join the Swiss bank in December, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia. He will succeed Jimmy Wong, who is retiring from the banking industry after working at UBS for more than a decade.
FWD is the insurance arm of investment firm Pacific Century Group. At FWD, Sternby was latterly group corporate transactions officer and a member of the group management team.
He has more than 25 years of investment banking experience, having worked at Standard Chartered, Nomura and Morgan Stanley.
Sternby’s predecessor Wong had worked at UBS since 2006. He will remain with the bank until the first quarter of 2020 to ensure a smooth transition, added the memo.