Barclays announces the appointment of Neel Laungani as Head of Financial Sponsors for Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, Neel will report regionally to Avinash Thakur, Head of Investment Banking, Asia Pacific, and functionally to Christian Oberle, Global Head of Financial Sponsors. “As a top five global financial sponsors franchise, we have the global reach and sector depth across the world’s largest financial centres, which is a key differentiator to our clients. Most recently, he served as Managing Director and Head of Financial Sponsors Coverage for APAC at Credit Suisse, and as Vice-Chairman of TMT Coverage in the region. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank.