ABN AMRO appoints new China chairman

In a bold move to boost its mainland investment banking operations, ABN AMRO has announced the hire of Qiu Zhizhong as vice chairman of the bank in Asia and chairman of ABN AMRO, China. Both posts were created specially for him. He will be based in Hong Kong and answer to Asia CEO, Jeroen Drost. Answering to him will be James Pearson and Linda Wong, who head up commercial and consumer banking in China respectively, both with the title of MD. Qiu used to be MD and Chairman at Credit S…