In 2000, Catherine Leung was selected by the senior management of JPMorgan as one of the 10 future leaders of the firm in Asia. Her departure to Merrill Lynch the next year didn't bode well for this prediction - until now.
Leung has boomeranged back to JPMorgan after a mere 18 months at Merrill to become the senior Hong Kong coverage officer. Having started on Wednesday she now says I am now more convinced about the universal banking platform that JPMorgan has to offer.
Leung was 'heritage' JPMorgan and left just as the merger with Chase was being consummated and uncertainty about the future direction of the firm was at its...