Commerzbank has made several senior hires as it continues to increase professional staffing levels in its main Asian offices. Most of the recent appointments are for new roles in its fixed-income and currencies FIC division, and its equity markets and commodities EMC division, and have taken place since the end of April, building on a recruitment process that started a year ago.
Prominent hires include Mark Portlock and Jason Chauval in the bank’s foreign exchange business and Joseph Xie and Alvin Giang in a newly created China-based local markets operation.
Commerzbank now employs around 100 professionals in the major financial centres of Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai...