Moves

The newly created senior managing director role for insurance institutional clients is based in Hong Kong.

Over the last few months, the French bank has created several new roles and made key hires to bolster its presence in the region, including in mainland China.

The new branch in the IFSC will be led by Mihir Baxi, and will support renewable energy and infrastructure in India, including roads, transmission, data centres, technology and telecommunications.

Hong Kong-based Laungani was most recently Apac managing director and head of financial sponsors coverage at Credit Suisse.

The Singaporean Citi veteran has over three decades of experience at the US bank and replaces Tibor Pandi.

Alvaro Huete has been with the French bank for 28 years and is relocating from Paris to Singapore.

David Wang and Meka Meng have joined from Paul Hastings in Shanghai and Beijing.

In October, Lim, HSBC's HK CEO will replace Hang Seng's Diana Cesar, who is returning to HSBC; Ng, HSBC HK's head of wealth and personal banking, is set to replace Lim as HK CEO, in addition to her other roles.

David He, who has global experience across M&A, private equity and restructurings, joined from Gunderson Dettmer at the beginning of September.