Daiwa hires head of equity-linked origination

Formerly with Macquarie and Deutsche Bank, Oliver Nighjoy joins Daiwa as the firm seeks to leverage the CB platform it bought from KBC last year and expand into primary issuance.

Daiwa Capital Markets has hired Oliver Nighjoy as head of equity-linked origination for Asia-Pacific ex-Japan in a move that shows the firm is serious about expanding its equity capital markets franchise in the region to include primary CB issuance.

According to sources, Nighjoy is set to start his new job at the Japanese bank in Hong Kong today, only a few weeks after Daiwa hired Jackie Chien from Citi to build out its equity syndicate desk and six months after it brought on board Jonathan Orders as head of ECM for Asia ex-Japan. Nighjoy will report to Orders.

The firm, which is the investment banking...

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