Citi hires eight for Asia-Pacific prime broking team

Citi has made new appointments in its Asia-Pacific prime finance team in capital introductions, sales, client servicing, risk management and futures. And the bank has further hires planned, notably for synthetic and stock loan trading in Hong Kong and Sydney. The eight new staff are located in Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney, with five of them assuming newly created positions. They underline growing demand for hedge-fund services in the region, says Hannah Goodwin, Asia head of prime…