Steve Metcalfe, one of CSFB's senior originators, has left the firm to become co-head of Asian Equity Capital Markets at Nomura Securities. The man with not one but two Blackberry hand held devices will join Nomura towards the end of August and lead an expanding ECM team with his new co-head and old friend David Dean.
His appointment follows a recent capital injection at the Japanese securities firm, which is starting to make a big push in the region under Minoro Shinohara, head of Asian investment banking. Shinohara came to Asia at the beginning of the year, with a strong equities background, having previously run ECM in both Tokyo and...