Haitong's new head of UK investment banking has wasted little time in adding to the Chinese securities firm's growing European ranks, by recruiting former colleagues at his old employers, the independent capital markets boutique STJ Advisors and the Japanese bank Nomura.

Christian Thun-Hohenstein, who was named Haitong's head of investment banking in the UK in November 2015, on January 25 unveiled the new additions to the firm's European team, which will fill senior roles leading its financial institutions work and overseeing coverage of the Commonwealth of Independent States region.