Citi appoints Pankaj Vaish as South Asia head of markets
16 Jul 2010
Citi has appointed Pankaj Vaish as head of markets for Citi in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, with responsibilities for the fixed income, currencies, credit, commodities and equities businesses, reporting to Rodrigo Zorilla, head of global markets at Citi Asia Pacific and to Pramit Jhaveri, CEO at Citi India.
Vaish, who has over 19 years of capital markets experience across product lines and possess in-depth knowledge of hedge funds, joins Citi from Nomura Securities where he is a managing director and head of equities.
Prior to that, he has worked in Citi New York and his last designation was MD, proprietary trading.
Earlier in his career with Citi, he was responsible for the North America equity derivatives trading and structuring, global commodity derivatives and fixed income derivatives trading activities. He also managed the global hybrid options desk and credit derivatives trading.
Vaish holds a master of science in management from the Sloan School, and bachelor's degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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