Citi is beefing up its Asian equity sales team with two new hires. James Wu, who was previously with UBS, will join in August as the bank's new head of Taiwan equity sales and Nimit Jani is joining the Asian sales team in London with a particular remit to cover Citi's Indian specialist sales to UK institutions. Jani will also continue to sell Asian equities in general to other UK clients, which will be similar to the role he has had for the past five years with Credit Suisse, ABN AMRO and Daiwa.
Wu joins Citi at a time when improving cross-strait relations with China have boosted interest in Taiwan equities, making it one...