Ng crosses to Nomura

The former Inter-American Development Bank CFO has relocated from Washington D.C. for the Beijing-based role.

Citi has named Hajime Higuchi as head of M&A and Yoshinobu Agu as head of sponsor coverage for Japan.

After over six years with the infrastructure investment bank, Cross will take up a senior leadership role at another institution outside of Asia.

Cross was most recently chief financial officer at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Beijing.

Natixis CIB's Asia Pacific & Middle East CEO discusses why data centres and AI are driving the region's next investment cycle, how geopolitical shifts are redrawing capital flows between Asia and the Middle East, and why banks will need new financing structures to support the scale of infrastructure investment ahead.

Japan’s largest taxi-hailing app operator opened 21.25% above its offer price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with Nomura, Goldman Sachs and BofA Securities acting as joint global coordinators.