SSB and Citibank appoint new global loans head for Asia

The former Nomura, UBS and Deutsche Bank banker brings more than 25 years of global M&A and strategic advisory experience.

With deep experience across Asia’s fund hubs, Samantha Fu joins Ogier Global in Singapore to support the firm’s growing offshore governance and private capital platform.

China had robust import and export growth in May despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Fitch has upgraded China's GDP forecast to 4.6% this year after "surprisingly good" Q1 data. In a volatile market, SpaceX is set to go public on June 12.

Jean-François Mastrangelo has joined the British bank in Hong Kong; he most recently worked at Societe Generale.

Rob Ward joins from MUFG to lead Natixis CIB’s Australia and New Zealand operations, bringing extensive energy and infrastructure expertise.

As Asia's AI buildout continues apace, the large deal from Citi, ING, Natixis, UOB and QNB, will help the new firm build GPU cloud infrastructure in Indonesia with Nvidia.