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May 29 (Reuters) - The following financial services industryappointments were announced on Thursday. To inform us of otherjob changes, email to moves@thomsonreuters.com.
CITIGROUP INC
The financial firm said it has named Richard Banziger ashead of Citi Commercial Bank in the United States. A 30-yearveteran of Citi's institutional clients group, Banziger willlead the bank's expanding middle-market banking business acrossthe country. He replaces Will Howle, who was named head ofCiti's U.S. retail bank in April.
LLOYDS BANKING GROUP
The company hired a female partner from KPMG to head itsaudit operations as part of its drive to increase the number ofsenior female executives at the state-backed group. Mary Hallwill be the second-most senior woman at the banking group whenshe takes up the role of group audit director in September, aspokeswoman for Lloyds said.
LLoyds Bank Commercial Banking appointed David Bee asmanaging director and head of FX Sales & Wealth Solutions, basedin London. Bee will take up the position in August.
HSBC GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
The asset management division of HSBC Holdings Plc said Pedro Bastos would succeed Joanna Munro to become chiefexecutive officer, Hong Kong, and regional head of Asia Pacific.Currently chief executive of HSBC Global Asset Management Braziland regional head of Latin America, Bastos will relocate to HongKong to take up the new role.
ALVAREZ & MARSAL (A&M)
The UK-based professional services firm appointed KleonPhili as a managing director to launch its European valuationservices practice, based in London. Prior to joining A&M, Philiserved as executive vice president, global segment leader offinancial advisory and executive committee member at Duff &Phelps, a valuation and corporate advisory firm.
ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS
The investment manager appointed Mark Guirey as director ofUK institutional business development, based in London. Mostrecently, Guirey was at BlackRock Inc, where he spent 13years, latterly as a sales director within the UK institutionalbusiness.
SQUARE MILE INVESTMENT CONSULTING & RESEARCH
The investment consulting company appointed Amaya Assan as asenior investment research analyst, where she will focus onEuropean, Asian, Emerging Markets and Japanese equity funds.Before joining Square Mile, Assan served as a senior investmentresearch analyst for Morningstar OBSR, helping lead the firm'scoverage of long-only equity funds in the European, globalemerging-markets, Asian and Japanese sectors.
INVESCO PERPETUAL
The unit of investment management firm Invesco Ltd said Andrew Hall was promoted to fund manager on the InvescoPerpetual Global Opportunities Fund. Hall, who joined InvescoPerpetual in May last year, will co-manage the fund with StephenAnness from May 30. (Compiled by Natalie Grover and Shailaja Sharma in Bangalore)
Lloyds (LLOY)
HSBC Holdings (HSBA)
