Nomura hires Goldman Sachs banker to head Korea corporate sales

Wonseok Chae has joined Nomura to head corporate sales and financing in Korea, the Japanese bank announced in a statement yesterday. He took up his position in Seoul earlier this week as part of Nomura’s corporate solutions and financing group CSFG in Asia ex-Japan.

Chae was hired from Goldman Sachs, where he was head of corporate sales for Korea previously he was chief of Deutsche Bank’s corporate coverage group in the country.

Nomura is expanding its existing corporate client coverage platform in the region. Its CSFG platform combines the firm’s corporate coverage resources across corporate sales, risk solutions and private financing to provide clients in...