IBS Journal August 2017


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Eri Kakuta. Kakuta, who will report to group co-head Celeste Guth, will focus on advising banking clients on cross-border deals with Japanese companies.


Kakuta is the second female managing director hired by Guth, who also joined the German bank from Goldman in September 2015. Kakuta began her career at Morgan Stanley and joined Goldman in 2007, becoming an MD two years later.


He was appointed as a private client director of Cerno Capital last year a bid to strengthen its private client offering. It is as yet unclear who Reed’s replacement will be.


Prior to his first stint at HSBC, he spent seven years at Seven Investment Managers as an investment manager. He also worked at Brown Shipley.


Joining alongside Reed in the high net worth team is Christopher Pullen, who spent six years at Barclays Private Bank in London and Hong Kong.


Citi has poached UBS’ head of Europe, Middle East and Africa capital goods, Heiko Horn (pictured above), as the new head of its investment banking business in Switzerland. Mr Horn will also head Citi’s EMEA diversified industrials group, according to an internal memo seen by the Financial Times.


“Heiko brings with him over 10 years of experience covering the Swiss investment banking market,” said Niraj Shah, co-head of EMEA industrials. “He will work in close partnership with Niraj Shah and Rob Jurd covering diversified industrials and capital goods clients in EMEA. He is expected to join Citi in November and will be based in Zurich.” The role is a newly created one, as Citi increases its focus on Western Europe.


HSBC Private Banking has re-hired Jonathan Reed exactly one year after he left the firm. Reed will take up the role of director in the private bank’s UK domestic high net worth team.


Deutsche Bank has hired five other managing directors in its financial institution’s group in the last two months, including Adora Whitaker (pictured above) from Bank of America Corp, Bruce Harting from Credit Suisse AG,


The bank has also appointed Paul Fairfoull to desk head in the south, reporting to Peter Barriscale, business head for HSBC Private Banking’s domestic high net worth teams. Fairfoull joins from Credit Suisse, where he focused on business development. Elsewhere, Mark Sheerin joined as an investment counsellor based in Manchester.


Meir Lewis from Morgan Stanley and Tommaso Zanobini from Jefferies Group.


William E Brown has been appointed senior vice president and director of retail banking at New Jersey-based Investors Bank. Brown will report to Paul Kalamaras, executive vice president and chief retail banking officer. He will be responsible for growth in the bank’s retail banking unit. Brown previously spent a year at Dime Community Bank as chief retail officer and three years prior to that at HSBC as head of retail banking and wealth management. He will be charged with implementing the bank’s new digital strategy.


UK challenger Metro Bank has promoted Martyn Atkinson to chief information officer. Atkinson previously held the role of director of digital and change at the bank. He joined the lender in January 2016, arriving from Nationwide where he had held a position as head of transformation.


Prior to his stint there, Atkinson worked for Lloyds and Accenture. As CIO, Metro Bank said, he will be accountable for IT strategy and architecture, IT development, support and operations, operational resilience and risk management.


Lombard Risk has appointed a new country manager in Australia and New Zealand. Colm Gaughran takes the helm of the company’s latest ventures in the region. He will be based out of Sydney and will lead Lombard Risk’s “ongoing expansion” of the firm’s regulation services. Gaughran joined Lombard Risk in October 2016 after spending two years with FIS. Prior to his time at the banking vendor, Gaughran worked for BlackRock and JP Morgan Chase.


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