BoA Merrill lures Matthew Koder back to Asia

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has poached veteran banker Matthew Koder from UBS to head its corporate and investment banking business in Asia. Koder submitted his resignation on Friday in London and is expected to return to Hong Kong and start at BoA Merrill by the end of June or early July.

Koder, who has nearly two decades of banking experience, is well known in Hong Kong as a rainmaker who gets deals done during tough times. See a 2003 interview Jackie Horne did with him about his outlook for Asian equities after Sars.. He knows Asia, having handled Hong Kong IPOs for Bank of China and...