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The Taiwan-listed fibre optic and data cable manufacturer will buy the Singapore-headquartered ICT business using cash and Citi financing to strengthen its data centre infrastructure capabilities amid surging AI demand.

The former JP Morgan banker will be joining Citi in June from tech firm Dream Sports, and will be based in Mumbai.

Bhavin Shukla will become managing director, head of infrastructure investment banking, Japan Asia North and Australia & Asia South, at the US bank.

Anders Svensson is joining the bank in Sydney from Morgan Stanley.

Metzger is joining SC's Corporate & Investment Banking team as global head, coverage banking; Kaustubh Kulkarni, co-head at Citi's Apac investment banking team will lead the team at Citi.

Singapore-based Indran Thana is joining in June from UBS.

Amid regional market momentum, the global bank has a strong pipeline of Apac deals across ECM, DCM and M&A.

Sydney-based Ellis has been leading the Australia & New Zealand rates sales franchise and will continue in this role.

Soonwook Kwon was most recently managing director and branch manager at UBS in Seoul.