Woods goes global

John Woods has left his Hong Kong garden full of snakes (and the occasional dead body) in the New Territories for the slightly more sedate world of Greenwich. The well regarded and highly ranked Woods has just been promoted to the position as HSBC's global head of credit research & strategy, from his previous role running the Asian fixed income research team. The move by an Asian fixed income research head to a global job in London follows that of Merrill's Chris Francis and…