Assaf lands top job at HSBC investment bank

Wholesale banking business lines re-divided, with ECM now falling to global banking and DCM to global markets

Friday 10 December 2010 at 15:47

HSBC’s head of global markets Samir Assaf has been named chief executive of the UK firm’s entire investment bank as part of wide-ranging changes to the structure and personnel at HSBC’s wholesale banking business.

The changes were all introduced today by incoming group chief executive Stuart Gulliver.