S&P Capital IQ Power Moves

JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced that Matt Zames, currently co-head of global fixed income in the investment bank and head of capital markets within the mortgage bank, will succeed Ina Drew as the firm’s chief investment officer and continue in his mortgage-related responsibilities. He will also join the firm-wide operating committee.

Daniel Pinto, currently co-head of global fixed income with Zames, will become sole head of the group. He will also remain CEO of Europe, Middle East and Africa region, based in London. -Business Wire

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has named Abdulaziz al Helaissi as its new head of corporate banking for the Middle East and North African (MENA) region.

Helaissi is currently serving the bank as its senior country officer for Saudi Arabia.

The company also appointed Declan Hegarty as its new managing director for United Arab Emirates (UAE) operations.

Hegarty will look after the corporate bank division in the region. Prior to joining JP Morgan, he worked for HSBC as its head of Abu Dhabi operations.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced it has elevated Namdev Chougule as the head of its fixed income business.

Chougule will be responsible for leading the fixed income team in the management of all fixed income and money market portfolios.

Chougule has been associated with the firm since 2007 and has been managing fixed income funds. -The Press Trust of India

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has added local attorney Eric Werner as executive director of its new private bank operations in Pittsburgh.

Werner, who previously worked at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, will be responsible for providing investing, wealth transfer, credit and philanthropic services to ultra high-net worth individuals in Pennsylvania and Ohio. -Pittsburgh Tribune Review

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has made management changes at its wealth management unit, naming Phil Di Iorio as the chief executive of global wealth management, John Duffy as head of the US private bank and Ann Borowiec as head of US private wealth management.

Duffy and Borowiec will report to Di Iorio as head of the global structure.

Additionally, Catherine Keating, who had led US operations, has moved to be head of US institutional-client asset management.

In the newly created position, Di Iorio replaces the role of three heads, one for the US, one for international and one for products and practices. He has been with the bank for 25 years, most recently as  head of products. -Global Banking News

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has appointed Patrick Fanning as head of transition management for the firm’s Australia and New Zealand business.

Fanning will report to Rob Saffer, global head of transition management, and will be based in Sydney.

With extensive experience across all aspects of transitions, Fanning has spent the last 10 years with CitiGroup Global Markets where he managed some of the largest and most complex transitions executed in the Asia Pacific region. -M2 Presswire

JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced the appointment of Deepak Mangla as chief executive officer, India global service center.

In this new role, Mangla will provide strategic direction and leadership across technology, operations, finance and other support functions to ensure the GSC continues to support the growth of JPMorgan Chase’s businesses globally. He will also be a member of the local management committee in India.

Mangla joins from HSBC where he was managing director and head of the GSC operations in India, responsible for leading operations across various verticals with multiple city operations servicing more than 50 countries. -M2 Presswire

JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced that it has named Larry Slaughter as co-head for its investment banking business in North America. He will be based in New York.

Slaughter will share responsibilities with Kevin Willsey and succeeds Jeff Urwin, who was appointed two weeks ago as head of global investment banking coverage, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions.-Global Banking News

JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced that it has named Kazuma Naito as a managing director and the head of Asia equity derivatives group sales and marketing. He will be based in Hong Kong.

In his new role, Natio will report jointly to Mark Justh, head of equities distribution of Asia Pacific, and William Lee, head of the equity derivatives group for Asia Pacific. He was previously with Goldman Sachs Group.

Ken Kishimoto has been named as a managing director and the head of Japan equity trading. He will be based in Toyko.

Kishimoto will report to Lee, and locally to Michael Green, the head of Japan equities and Asia electronic trading solutions. He was earlier with Morgan Stanley. -Global Banking News

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has announced that Drago Rajkovic has joined as an M&A banker. He will be based in San Francisco, and would take over as a managing director.

In his new role, Rajkovic would lead JPMorgan Chase’s technology-related mergers and acquisitions group.

Rajkovic was most recently with Barclays Capital. -Global Banking News

JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced that Irene Tse is joining the company as chief investment officer for North America. She will succeed Althea Duersten.

Tse will report to Ina Drew, chief investment officer, and she will join the company’s executive committee, the firm’s senior leadership group.

Tse brings more than 17 years of portfolio management and investing experience to her new role. Prior to joining the company, she was a managing director and portfolio manager at Duquesne Capital Management. -Business Wire

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has appointed Muhammad Aurangzeb head of its Asia corporate bank which caters to big corporate clients, public organizations and financial institutions.He will assume his new responsibilities in February 2011, succeeding Michael S. Brown who moved to London to take another executive role within the group.

Based in Singapore, Aurangzeb will report to the corporate bank head, Greg Guyett, and to JPMorgan Asia-Pacific chief, Gaby Abdelnour.

Aurangzeb previously led the global banking and markets division of the Royal Bank of Scotland in southeastern Asia and was country manager for Singapore. -M2 EquityBites

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has appointed Hans Janssens as the head of treasury & securities services (TSS) in Japan, as the bank seeks to expand the TSS business in Asia Pacific. His appointment is effective November 1, 2010.

Janssens, who was most recently the chief financial officer for JP Morgan in Japan, will be responsible managing the operations of the treasury services (TS) franchise. He will also oversee the worldwide securities services (WSS) business, which will continue to be headed by Fumihiko Yonezawa, head of WSS Japan.

With over 20 years of experience working in Japan, Janssens has worked as an interest rates derivatives trader, and also held risk control positions at Nomura. He has also served as the deputy chief executive officer of a joint venture operation between JP Morgan and a Japanese insurance company. -Global Banking News

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has appointed Sazzad Anam, head of financial institutions, Bangladesh, JP Morgan Treasury Services, to head the new representative office in Bangladesh, which will provide financial institution clients with advanced banking services supported by its innovative global solutions.

Anam has approximately ten years’ industry experience, and will be responsible for strategy, client delivery and sales within Bangladesh. -Datamonitor NewsWire

JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced the appointment of Karen Batungbacal De Venecia as senior country operations officer.

In this role, Batungbacal De Venecia will oversee the global service center in the Philippines. She will report directly to Jack Jones in the United States, and to Roberto Panlilio in the Philippines.

Prior to this appointment, Batungbacal De Venecia was president of ICT Group Philippines, a leading publicly traded US-based global provider of customer management and related marketing, technology and business process outsourcing services. Previously, she held leadership positions with C-Cubed, Citibank, Bayantel, and American President Lines. -BusinessWorld

JPMorgan Chase & Company has announced the appointment of Ray Eyles as new Asia commodities head, overseeing the business in the Asia-Pacific. He replaces chief executive Oral Dawe.

Eyles is a former head of global commodities strategic trading in London.

JPMorgan Chase announced that Heidi Miller, head of treasury & securities services, has been named president of international.

Michael Cavanagh, chief financial officer, will succeed Ms. Miller as chief executive officer of TSS.

Doug Braunstein, head of investment banking, Americas, will succeed Mr. Cavanagh as chief financial officer.

Ms. Miller will develop a comprehensive and coordinated international business strategy and growth plan ensuring that the company identifies opportunities for growth all over the world; accelerates its expansion in countries like China, Brazil, India, and Russia; seeks out opportunities in other emerging economies; properly resources and governs lines of business and functions; continues the build-out of local branches; and cuts out any bureaucracy and inefficiencies. She will take the lead in further expanding global corporate bank, managing it in close coordination with investment bank CEO Jes Staley as well as with TSS head Mike Cavanagh. As part of her new responsibilities, she will also chair a newly formed international operating committee, consisting of the firm’s senior global leaders, and she will focus on growing international branches across lines of business.

Mr. Cavanagh, who has been the company’s chief financial officer since 2004, will provided broad leadership throughout the company’s major merger integration efforts. He has played a key role in helping the company successfully navigate the financial crisis over the past few years.

Prior to heading investment banking, Americas, Mr. Braunstein served in a number of senior investment banking roles, including as head of global mergers and acquisitions. He has been a member of the firm’s executive committee since 2005. -Business Wire

JPMorgan Chase has announced that it has added Ben Shenglin as head of its corporate banking business in China.

Shenglin, who was formerly the China head of commercial banking at HSBC, will start in the newly created position at JP Morgan on April 26, 2010. He will report to Zili Shao, who was named head of the New York bank’s China operations in November. He will also report to Greg Guyett, who currently heads JP Morgan’s Japanese operations.

Guyett is moving from Tokyo to London, where he has been appointed to lead JP Morgan’s corporate banking business globally.

Guyett will be succeeded in Tokyo by JP Morgan banker Chris Harvey, who has been appointed to head JP Morgan’s Japanese operations.

JPMorgan Chase announced that its investment banking business hired David Harrison as head of Canadian energy investment banking, to be based in Calgary.

Mr. Harrison will be responsible for building out the firm’s energy franchise in Canada. He will report to Adam Howard, senior country officer and head of Canadian investment banking and Vean Gregg, head of North American oil and gas investment banking.

Mr. Harrison was previously head of energy investment banking at UBS Securities Canada, where he worked since 1995. He was responsible for a wide range of sectors, including oil and gas, power and pipelines, chemicals and forestry. -Business Wire