By Helene Durand
LONDON, June 20 (IFR) - Marco Baldini has been appointedhead of European bond syndicate at Barclays, according to aninternal memo seen by IFR, as the bank continues a reshuffle ofits fixed income primary market franchise.
He reports to Jonathan Brown, co-head of globalinvestment-grade syndicate.
Baldini runs the European corporates and rates syndicate,the financials institutions group has now been added to hisresponsibilities.
Baldini's appointment is part of a broader syndicatereshuffle at the bank. John Wright will now run the FIGsyndicate and report to Baldini. He takes over from Mark Gellerwho became deputy head of financial institutions debt capitalmarkets for Europe, Middle East and Africa on June 1.
Yasset Chahboun will move from the medium-term notessyndicate desk to work with Wright on FIG. Caroline Harmstonewill replace Chahboun in the MTN team, joining in July from thebanking real estate team.
Barclays has also made changes in the Asia-Pacific region,according to the memo. Kentaro Kiso has moved out of thesyndicate function in Japan and is now president, BarclaysSecurities Japan, reporting to Mark Dearlove, chief executive ofBarclays Securities Japan.
From July, Ryohei Morita will run Barclays' Japan syndicateand Ken Wei Wong will run non-Japan Asia-Pacific syndicate,reporting to Brown. (Reporting by Helene Durand; editing by Alex Chambers, IanEdmondson)