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US bank's Asia-Pacific chairman of investment banking Brian Gu leaves to join high-flying Chinese electric car startup Xpeng Motors. $1b of additional fund raising seen this year.

The US bank made a number of changes in senior investment banking roles across both product and coverage groups, taking a more integrated approach similar to its US headquarters.

Houston Huang will join JP Morgan later this year as head of global investment banking for China from Goldman Sachs.

The New York bank has reassigned several senior banking roles across Asia, in line with its banking practice in other markets.

The US firm’s China IB co-heads talk to FinanceAsia about hiring plans and diversifying revenues.

Frank Gong is JP Morgan's new chairman of investment banking in China after its top deal-maker in the country, Fang Fang, retired. The management shakeup takes place as US regulators investigate the bank’s overseas hiring practices.