HSBC has lured three more salespeople from rival institutions as the Hong Kong bank continues to expand its cash management operation in the region. This month Ken Tashima from ABN AMRO, Irene Han from Standard Chartered and Kevin Gui from Citibank have joined the HSBC team.
The trio will report to Duncan Ashford who is currently running HSBC's cash business in China but will soon return to Hong Kong to head the regional corporate sales team under overall boss Lawrence Webb. Ashford has spent the last 18 months based in Shanghai.
We have invested in a lot of new cash management products over the last two years and now...