S&P Capital IQ Power Moves

HSBC Holdings named Melvyn Ford as head of prime services in Asia on May 10, 2012.

Ford, who has spent 17 years in Asia, joined HSBC in 2010 to lead the global relationship management function for hedge funds in the region. Previously, he worked for prime services units at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank AG. -HedgeWorld Daily News

Ross McEwan is appointed as the new chief executive, UK retail, at Royal Bank of Scotland. He is to take up the new role in June, replacing Brian Hartzer as the head of the institution’s retail arm. He will also be a member of the company’s executive committee.

McEwan was previously group executive, retail banking, for Commonwealth Bank of Australia, for the past five years.

The wealth and investment management division of Barclays has announced the appointment of Edward Kirwan as director, UK charities investment management.

Kirwan joins Barclays after twelve years at Coutts, where he was responsible for establishing and managing the charity investment team.

Centerview Partners LLC announced that Roland Phillips, an experienced banker with extensive relationships across the industry, will join the firm’s London office as a partner.

Mr. Phillips will be primarily responsible for European corporate client coverage, and have a particular focus on companies in the consumer and retail sectors.He joins a growing office in London led by senior partner Richard Girling.

Mr. Phillips brings 15 years of advisory experience at UBS and has worked in both London and New York. He most recently headed UBS’s EMEA Consumer Products & Retail team. Mr. Phillips was a Managing Director based in New York before becoming head of UBS’s EMEA Consumer Products & Retail team in London. -PR Newswire

Andrew Rosen, a former executive with Central Pacific Bank, has been named president and CEO of Hawaii State Federal Credit Union.

Rosen returns to Hawaii from San Francisco, where he led Bank of the West in new deposit household growth and checking account acquisition.

Prior to that he was the chief marketing officer for Central Pacific Bank. He replaces Deborah Kim, who resigned in November after 20 years with the credit union. -Other

Geoffrey Alexander was named as president of R. M. Davis, Inc.

Alexander, who has worked with the firm since 1997 and is one of eight owners, has been vice president and portfolio manager. Robert M. Mal Davis, the firm’s founder and CEO, will remain CEO.

As president, Alexander will be chairman of the executive committee and oversee ongoing operations of the company. He will be responsible for guiding and implementing policies that support the firm’s client-focused mission and watching over the firm’s continued growth, according to the release. Alexander also will continue to work directly with clients in the portfolio management role.

Alexander formerly worked for the General Dynamics Marine Services Division of Bath Iron Works. He also has served on several community boards and advisory committees, including the United Way, Cumberland YMCA, The Park Danforth, Maine Medical Center, The Thomas Memorial Library Foundation and the Maine Maritime Museum’s Board of Trustees. -Other

BNP Paribas announced that it has named Francois Regnier as its country head for Russia. He replaces Jean-Yves Moiron who is going to take over the similar post in Portugal.

Regnier will be responsible for the overall development of the group in Russia, including the development of corporate and investment banking, and will work in Moscow. Upon completion of all required legal procedures, he will be elected chairman of the management board of BNP Paribas Bank CJSC and become a member of the bank’s supervisory board. He will report to Mark Carlos, deputy head of the European region of BNP Paribas Group.

Regnier previously held a number of executive positions at BNP Paribas, including the similar post in Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia. -Stock Exchange Website

Barclays has added four senior private bankers to its wealth and investment management business in Singapore.

Tsukasa Miyachi joined Barclays as a managing director on April 3, focusing on the Indonesia market. Miyachi was most recently the head of wealth management for Asia excluding Japan at Nomura.

Erliena Yulianawati joined Barclays from Clariden Leu as director on April 2, also focusing on the Indonesia market.

Fumiko Omura joined Barclays as director on March 20 from Merrill Lynch.

Eugene Huang, another former Merrill banker, joined Barclays’ Greater China team in February as a director, serving very rich, or ultra high net worth, clients in Greater China. -The Business Times Singapore

Barclays announced the appointment of Thomas L. Kalaris to the newly created role of executive chairman of the Americas. He will relocate from London to New York to take up this role, and will retain his executive committee responsibilities as chief executive of the wealth and investment management division of Barclays, as well as chairing Barclays client committee.

In addition, Kalaris will work in partnership with Jerry del Missier, co-chief executive of the corporate and investment banking division and chief executive of the Americas. Together, they will co-chair the Barclays Americas management team, which will be responsible for capital, funding, risk appetite and the control environment across the businesses that operate in the region, as well as review and recommend the strategy for the Americas. He will also join del Missier on the Barclays Americas governance and control committee. Kalaris will focus on further strengthening Barclays presence in the Americas, where there has been significant growth in earnings and a broader and deeper investor base has been developed in recent years. -M2 Presswire

Walker & Dunlop announced that it has added veteran originators Paul J. Ahmed, David B. Gahagan, and E. Lance Lehman to its capital markets group. They will be based out of the new Fort Lauderdale, FL office.

Ahmed, Gahagan, and Lehman will join Walker & Dunlop as senior vice presidents, focusing on financing income producing properties including office, apartments, hotels, industrial and retail in the southeast region.

Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Ahmed and Gahagan were vice presidents and Lehman was senior vice president at Grandbridge Real Estate Capital. -PR Newswire

Barclays named John Langley and Joe McGrath as its new co-heads of its global finance and risk solutions business. They succeed Larry Wieseneck, who was appointed chief strategy officer.

Langley and McGrath will report to the bank’s head of global investment banking, Skip McGee, and will join the investment banking division’s executive committee.

McGrath was previously head of leveraged finance at the bank.

Langley has been head of risk solutions at Barclays since early 2011.

HSBC Holdings has announced that it has appointed Stuart Milne as its chief executive officer for India, effective April 1, 2012.

Milne succeeds Stuart A. Davis, who is moving to a new position within the organization.

Milne was most recently the firm’s country manager for Japan. -Global Banking News

Paul Mello, president and CEO of Solvay Bank, has been appointed one of nine directors at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, effective March 28, 2012.

Mello is one of three bankers on the New York Fed’s board.

Bay Equity Home Loans announced that it has added Spencer Richardson as its director of Northwest production.

In his position Richardson is responsible for opening and overseeing the firm’s new office in Tacoma and for driving its business development efforts throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has focused his career in the Pacific Northwest and is now leveraging that experience to expand Bay Equity’s presence in the market.

Richardson brings more than 16 years of experience within the residential wholesale and retail mortgage banking business. As the founder of two mortgage banking companies, his management expertise includes secondary marketing, strategic planning, operations, underwriting and sales.

Societe Generale Group announced that its newly planned financial institutions division, which will focus on providing funding and advice to other financial institutions, will be led by the current global head of strategic and acquisition finance, Pierre-Yves Bonnet.

The company is also expected to combine its equity capital markets unit with its mergers and acquisitions unit to create a corporate finance unit, which will reportedly be led by current head of mergers and acquisitions, Thierry d’Argent, with the global head of equity capital markets, Laurent Morel, moving on for another role in the bank. -RTTNews

HSBC Holdings has appointed Kanchana G. Hewavitharana as chief financial officer for HSBC Sri Lanka and Maldives and Michael J. F. Hung as chief risk officer for HSBC Sri Lanka and Maldives.

Both Kanchana and Michael arrived to the country from overseas postings in HSBC Hong Kong and Vietnam, respectively.

Societe Generale Group has named Galeazzo Pecori Giraldi head of its newly-created private investment banking unit, to manage a team of senior bankers and account managers in Europe and the Middle East.

Giraldi joined from Morgan Stanley in 2010 to serve the role of deputy chairman of its investment-banking committee.

TD Bank has named Greg Braca as head of U.S. corporate and specialty banking.

Braca will be responsible for corporate banking, in partnership with TD Securities, as well as commercial real estate, healthcare, equipment finance, asset-based lending, and dealer commercial services. He will report to TD Bank president and CEO Bharat Masrani.

Braca has 25 years of experience in the banking industry. He assumes his new role after serving as regional president for TD Bank’s Metro New York market and head of healthcare banking. He joined TD Bank in 2002, and has played a key leadership role in TD Bank’s growth in the Metro New York region. In addition to managing retail and commercial banking in New York, he has also been instrumental in successfully building out the bank’s small business, government banking, middle market and specialty lending businesses. Prior to joining TD, he served as senior vice president for FleetBoston Bank’s New York Metro healthcare group. -PR Newswire

HSBC has appointed Vineet Vohra as regional head of wealth development, Asia Pacific, effective immediately.

Based in Hong Kong, Vohra will drive the delivery of the bank’s wealth management strategy by leading the build out of its wealth management capabilities in Asia.

Prior to joining HSBC, Vohra was the general manager, wealth management, private bank, retail banking and wealth management, Asia Pacific, for ANZ Singapore, where he built the private and affluent platform across the region. He has also served in a number of leadership roles at Citibank and ING in Singapore and India. -Hedgeweek

HSBC Holdings announced that Annemarie Ganatra has been appointed as global head of medium term notes (MTN) and structured notes. She will be based in London.

Ganatra joined HSBC in 1997 and previously ran the MTN teams in Hong Kong and New York.