HSBC builds out prime services, equities

HSBC has made three senior hires to its burgeoning Asia-Pacific prime services unit, including veterans from prime brokerage rivals Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan. Jean-Paul Linschoten and Adrian Harrison have been named as directors in prime services sales, based in Hong Kong and reporting to Matt Kiraly, Asia-Pacific head of prime services sales. Linschoten moves from UBS in New York. Before joining the Swiss bank in 2011, he spent a decade at JP Morgan in the US and Hong Kong, w…