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Nomura appoints Jai Rajpal as head of fixed income Asia ex-Japan following the resignation of Thomas Siegmund. The newly created role will also put Fung in charge of the asset management business in the region. Gordon French will take over as head of global markets. Simon Aird's return to London comes at a time of heavy turnover at the equity syndicate desks in Hong Kong. The latest moves include the resignation of William Smiley from HSBC ... Alasdair Morrison, a former CEO of Morgan Stanley Asia and former group managing director of Jardine Matheson, joins Citi as senior advisor. The firm hires Wan Li, a veteran legal adviser specialising in natural resources, infrastructure and energy in China, as it expects the deal flow in these sectors to increase. Rahul Chawla takes on a new position as head of the global markets solutions group for India as Credit Suisse continues to build its India franchise. The overseer of RBS Coutts's integration with ABN Amro Private Banking in India will now run the South Asia business. Foo takes on responsibility for Asian sovereign wealth funds and central banks at BNP Paribas, but will continue as CEO of Fortis Bank’s Singapore branch until Fortis is fully ... Sun will coordinate the Japanese bank's China research teams in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Larsen steps down as Citi's country head for Singapore, with a successor yet to be announced. In January, Andrew Low, head of Macquarie Capital Asia, will take on a new role as chief operating officer for Macquarie Capital Advisers. Guy Ashton changes focus from Europe and the Middle East to Asia-Pacific – a region which Deutsche Bank expects will be the world's fastest growing in the medium-term. BNP Paribas wealth management brings Thierry Dana from Switzerland to handle Hong Kong and North Asia, and puts Claude Haberer in charge of key clients for Asia. Current Asia-Pacific president Kim Hong will move aside and take up a new role as vice-chairman for the region, reporting to Brille. James Fleming has been appointed head of ECM syndicate for the Americas at UBS, and will be replaced as head of the Asia equity syndicate desk by Stuart Mackay. Citi's former head of Pakistan research moves to Indonesia to lead the research effort there, while Kim Kwie Sjamsuddin joins the bank from BNP Paribas as an Indonesia mining ... Citi promotes Adrian Faure to head of equities and Brent Robinson to head of investment research for the region. The effective head of Korea DCM moves to New York to focus on strategy, support and supervision for the firm's global sales and trading business. Sam Kendall will move to London to become head of equity syndicate for EMEA, but will retain his ties to Asia through a new role as global head of blocks. The US bank makes Jane Fraser CEO of its private bank and Deepak Sharma the chairman.