Standard Chartered has snapped up convertible bond specialist Nathan McMurtray to become its new global head of origination for equity-linked securities, a job left vacant when Ronnie Potel left in March to join Morgan Stanley.
The hire is somewhat surprising as McMurtray, according to several sources, was set to join Citi this month as a senior banker in its four-person CB team in Asia. In a story that ran on our website on April 23, FinanceAsia quoted a source saying McMurtray was expected to start with Citi in Hong Kong in the next couple of weeks after working out his notice at Standard Bank.
Instead, McMurtray started a new job...