Many are referring to it as the end of an era. The departure of Paul Kelly as ING's co-head of equity capital markets sees one of the region's most experienced equity professionals exiting the market.
Known as PK, Kelly has been with ING or rather Barings since 1990 and arrived in Hong Kong in 1994. In the ensuing years, few bankers have been more plugged in to what's happening in the primary equity markets. Married to this knowledge is a wit as dry as a Jacobs' cream cracker.
When not spinning deals, Kelly is to be found spinning the decks at Funky Times, a quarterly 1970's funk event he...