Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. appointed Jiro Seguchi to head its brokerage and banking units in Japan from June 1, replacing Tim Latimore. Seguchi, co-head of global corporate and investment banking in the Asia-Pacific region, will move to Tokyo from Hong Kong to add the new role as country executive for Japan, according to an internal memo obtained by …

  Bloomberg UBS Group AG hired Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP’s Arend Kapteyn as chief economist of its investment bank. Kapteyn will join the Swiss lender on August 1 in London and will report to global head of investment bank research Juan Luis Perez, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg News. A spokesman for the bank confirmed the …

  Bloomberg Selling shares in an Italian bank today, as one fund manager put it to Gadfly, is like selling black shoes in spring time—a tough exercise. Carlo Messina, CEO of one of the banks overseeing the IPO of Veneto Banca, a troubled Italian lender struggling to meet European Central Bank requests to boost capital, has given his own grim …