Mitsubishi UFJ hires Neil Arrowsmith to head Asia debt syndicate

Neil Arrowsmith, previously a London-based director at Royal Bank of Scotland RBS, is set to join Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, the investment banking arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, as its head of debt syndicate for Asia-Pacific ex-Japan.

Arrowsmith will be based in Hong Kong in what is a new role for the Japanese bank. In his last role at RBS, Arrowsmith was a director of the investment-grade corporate syndicate team. Before transferring to London, he had also worked on RBS’s syndicate desk in Singapore. He is expected to start at Mitsubishi UFJ in early June.

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