Macquarie continues to ramp up its Asian operations with the appointment of Marshall Nicholson as a new MD in ECM and Matei Mihalca as an MD in the TMT team.
Both men will focus on Greater China as the bank seeks to balance its strong South East Asian platform with a greater share of the more lucrative North Asian market. Since it purchased ING's equities business in July 2004, Macquarie has built a strong niche across Asia in areas where the Australian bank has always been strong in its home market - property, resources, infrastructure and funds.
During the first quarter of 2005, it surprised...