US investment firm Steel Partners has appointed ex-Morgan Stanley head Mark O’Friel as managing director of its Japanese business.

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Linedata Services has appointed Andrew Miller as head of its Asian businesses with a mandate to significantly expand the company’s presence in the region.

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JPMorgan has hired David Suen as managing director in its Hong Kong office to focus on equity origination in the Chinese market. The bank has also hired Vinay Menon as an executive director in its Indian office to be responsible for JPMorgan’s equity capital markets business.

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Global fund of hedge funds group Financial Risk Management (FRM) has hired Au King-lun as CEO of its Hong Kong subsidiary, FRM Hong Kong Limited. Au will lead FRM’s business efforts in Asia ex-Japan and Korea, as well as heading the newly opened Hong Kong office.

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Tullett Prebon Information (TPI), the data subsidiary of Tullett Prebon , has appointed Andrew Reeve as regional manager for Asia Pacific, reporting to Frank Desmond, head of Europe and Asia Pacific.

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Credit Suisse is setting up operations in Pakistan with an office in Karachi, with a view to enhancing its equity research coverage of Pakistani companies. The bank has appointed Farid Ahmed Khan to head its equity research and sales platform in the country, which it hopes to extend into a full broker-dealer operation by the start of 2009.

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HSBC has appointed Hitendra Dave as the sole head of global markets in India, following the transfer of fellow co-head Anand Krishnamurthy.

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ING Investment Management has appointed Alan Harden as CEO of the Asia Pacific region; he will also join the global management board and become a member of ING Group’s management council. Based in Hong Kong, he will report to Hans van der Noordaa, a member of ING Group’s executive board and chairman of its Asia Pacific insurance business.

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Asian equities fund manager Atlantis Investment Management has hired Joseph Wat as a fund adviser to set up an office for firm in Singapore, where he will be based. He will also launch a fund focused on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations later this year, the firm says.

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According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Kaven Leung, the head of Citigroup’s wealth management business, is leaving the bank. Deepak Sharma, currently chief of Citi’s non-US wealth management operations, is named as his successor in the report.

Rosenblatt Securities has appointed Xiang Li as vice president, analytics and consulting to develop new applications for customers and other technology initiatives, as part of the firm’s transaction cost analysis (TCA) group. According to the firm, he will be spending much of his time attempting to create functionality that will let Rosenblatt clients directly access and manipulate pre-trade and post-trade data.

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Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon Asset Servicing has appointed Rex Wong as a market segmentation specialist within the global product management team in Hong Kong. Wong will be responsible for market and sector analysis and defining and coordinating the implementation of future strategic growth opportunities across Asia. He will report to Francis Braeckevelt, managing director of global product management for Asia, who is based in Singapore.

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Northern Trust has hired ex-State Street North Asian operations head Michael Wu as deputy chief representative of its Beijing representative office, as the corporation focuses on continuing to develop in mainland China.

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London and New York-based Coexis has doubled its workforce over the last year to 100 employees and its Asian partner Serisys has opened two more offices in the APAC region as part of its plans to increase global coverage.

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The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has appointed Amy Balan as senior vice president (SVP) and head of corporate communications to replace Kelly Long, who has decided to leave the exchange to pursue other interests.

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SmartStream Technologies has appointed John Mason as UK regional director to replace Richard Cummings as he moves to head the firm’s Asia Pacific operations.

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Hedge fund group CQS has appointed BarCap’s David Kilgour to manage trading at its Hong Kong office and he will be joined by David Welsh, who has been transferred from its London office to head algo trading in the region.

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BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has appointed John Sin as vice president, based in Hong Kong. Sin will lead a newly created team with employees in China, Hong Kong and Singapore and will be responsible for improving the company’s operational infrastructure, including new business conversions, with the overall objective to deliver integrated and efficient solutions to clients within Asia.

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DST International (DSTi) has appointed Rob Gould to the newly created role of director of business development and strategy for Australia.

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DST International (DSTi) has made four new appointments at its Australian operations. Ros Barnsley has been appointed to the role of client relations manager; Brian Hamilton is confirmed as business solutions manager; Steven Goddard has joined as senior sales executive and Gwilym Box moves from DSTi Asia to become Australian AWD Solutions Manager.

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