One of Morgan Stanley's bluest-blooded bankers has joined HSBC where he will hope to transform its European corporate finance and ECM franchise. John Studzinski, the former deputy chairman and head of European MA at Morgan Stanley, joins HSBC as co-head of corporate, investment banking and markets.
He joins old Asia hand, Stuart Gulliver as co-head. Gulliver says the two have a perfect complementarity John has 20 years in Europe in corporate finance at a bulge bracket firm. Whereas I have spent 20 years in Asia on the debt and trading side within HSBC. So there is basically no overlap in our experiences. There is also a natural split in our...