HSBC beefs up securitization team

HSBC has appointed Lam Wan Tsiang as a director in its securitization team and structured finance team, continuing its process of building up the group. Lam joins from Nikko Salomon Smith Barney in Tokyo, where he was a vice president. The emergence of HSBC at the top end of Asia's securitization market has been plotted for a couple of years under Sarwar Ahmad, the team's head, but that effort has only really borne fruit in 2003, with HSBC now emerging as a frontrunner in the governm…