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Over the last few months, the French bank has created several new roles and made key hires to bolster its presence in the region, including in mainland China.

Alvaro Huete has been with the French bank for 28 years and is relocating from Paris to Singapore.

Joy Kwek joins from Morgan Stanley and is tasked with leading synergies between SMBC and SMBC Nikko, strengthening their capital markets and structured solutions offering.

French investment bank Natixis CIB has appointed Thaddeus Tien and Omkar Joshi to strengthen its Asia M&A push, with both starting in June.

Zhang Wenjie will return to the bank as Citi’s country officer and banking head for China in July.

Longtime Citi banker Ashu Khullar is promoted as Kenneth Poon leaves the banking industry.

Catherine Cai joins from Citi after the return of David Chin as regional IB head.

The Japanese brokerage firm boosts its debt origination team with the addition of former Natixis, Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank banker John Wade.

The French bank hires David So and Maureen Yu to bolster its Asian origination efforts