Takahisa Yano has been appointed as director, country head of global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) Japan. He will report functionally to Wei Wei Ng, head of international countries, Asia-Pacific, GTRF and locally to Yoshikazu Kato, head of banking in Japan.

 

Yano joins HSBC with over three decades of international banking and trade finance experience after working for the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) in a variety of roles in both London and Tokyo.  

 

Before joining HSBC, Yano was seconded to Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) from SMBC for two years as a director. Prior to that, he spent more than five years based in London where he led SMBC’s European trade finance operations. Earlier in his career, he had played an instrumental role in establishing Sumitomo Bank’s trade finance business since the mid-1990s.