Andrew Tjaardstra

This new cluster, to be led by Marc Luet, includes the bank's markets in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan.

The agreement between the Financial Services Development Council and the tax and legal arm of the Qatar Financial Centre is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, expertise and market insights.

Kunio Watanabe, most recently executive chairman of Nomura Holding America, has become BNY Mellon's Japan country executive and representative for its Tokyo Branch.

Li has previously been head of Greater China for Credit Suisse and deputy head of investment banking, China, at UBS.

The proceedings against the Hong Kong-based hedge fund, its chief investment officer and a former trader, relate to the dealing of shares listed on the HKEX prior to a block trade in June 2017.

The US law firm's Hong Kong partnership is to separate from the international arm of Mayer Brown, and take on its previous name, Johnson Stokes & Master.

Bosera International, Harvest Global Investments and China Asset Management have launched ETFs for Bitcoin and Ethereum on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

London-based Burke was previously at Standard Chartered as global head of electronic and algo trading.

The bank's group chief executive said he wants to "pursue a portfolio career going forward", as Q1 earnings beat expectations.

Pariyapol Kamolsilp will join the law firm on May 2 in Bangkok, while six lawyers, based in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, have been promoted to counsel.