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Chan joins from Khazanah Nasional, where
he was co-head of investments and led their
investment activities in China.
He was previously director of research at
several investment houses in Malaysia, covering
Malaysia and Singapore. He has also been with
Cazenove & Co, the UK-based investment bank
which JP Morgan later bought out.

„ Benjamin Son has quit from UBS as director
in the leveraged finance and special situations
group.
Son joined the Swiss lender in July 2014 in
Sydney, before moving to Singapore slightly
over a year later and then to Hong Kong at the
beginning of last year.
He resigned on March 5 and is now on
gardening leave.
Prior to joining UBS, he was with Golub Capital
as credit asset manager for two years in New
York. Before that, he worked at Credit Suisse
and Macquarie Bank, also in New York.

„ Mark Follett has moved from head of debt
capital markets origination, Asia ex-Japan, to
a newly created role at JP MORGAN, focusing on
jumbo deals.

Follett, who has been with JPM for over two

decades, will now focus on large, complex

transactions across asset classes that transform

businesses. He now reports to John Hall and

Murli Maiya, co-heads of global investment

banking coverage for Asia Pacific.

Amy Tan, formerly JPM’s head of DCM

origination for East Asia, has succeeded Follett.

She reports to Sudhir Goel, head of DCM and

country sales and marketing, markets and

investor service, Asia ex-Japan.

The appointments are effective immediately.

„ ANZ is hiring Richard Dawson as head of loans

and specialised finance, international, according

to a press release.

Dawson, formerly global head of debt advisory

at KPMG in London, will start with the

Australian lender on April 23.

Based in Hong Kong, he will report to Christina

Tonkin, managing director, loans and

specialised finance, and Farhan Faruqui, group

executive, international.

Dawson joined KPMG in January 2011 in Hong

Kong as head of debt advisory for Asia before

relocating to London in April 2016.

Prior to KPMG, he was at Royal Bank of

Scotland in Hong Kong for nearly three years as

head of corporate and structured debt capital

markets, Asia, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Before that, he was global head of syndicated

loans at ABN AMRO for 12 years.

„ Nirvikar Jain has quit as chief executive officer

of FIRST ABU DHABI BANK’s operations in India.

His last day was March 9. Jain is evaluating his

options for the next step in his career.

He joined First Gulf Bank in July 2012 and was

chief representative of the India representative

office until March 2017 before it merged with

National Bank of Abu Dhabi. He was then

appointed CEO of FAB, the merged entity.

Previously, Jain was with National Australia

Bank for nine months as director of trade

finance from November 2011, according to his

LinkedIn profile.

He started in banking with ICICI Bank as a senior

relationship manager in July 2002 and worked

in New Delhi for three years before moving to

Citibank as vice president, structured trade and

commodity finance for two years in Mumbai. He

then spent four years at Bank of America Merrill

Lynch, heading global transaction services sales

for Western and Eastern India.

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