Bank of America Merrill Lynch has appointed Brian Brille as its new president for Asia-Pacific as part of a global leadership appointment exercise by Tom Montag, the president of global banking and markets GBM after he in early August added corporate and investment banking to his previous responsibilities as head of global markets. The new leadership aims to speed up the integration of the bank's corporate and investment banking businesses and to ensure that these teams work together seamlessly to deliver client solutions.
The move follows a similar appointment exercise within global wealth and investment management after Sallie Krawcheck joined from Citi in August to head up that division. Brian Moynihan, who became head...