Citi has appointed Steve Yang as head of Greater China credit sales, based in Hong Kong.

Yang joins from JP Morgan, where he led the Taiwan credit and investor sales division for 7 years before proceeding to co-head the credit syndication unit. Prior to that, he was with the institutional clients group at Deutsche Bank and also worked for the fixed income arm of Bear Stearns. 

In his new capacity, he will working closely with Esther Feng, the head of Taiwan investors sales, and Yang Ji, the head of China investors sales. He reports directly to So-Yon Sohn, the head of credit sales for Asia Pacific.

Citi employs over 1,500 in its Asia Pacific markets operations and has raised over $50 billion in international bond markets to date, data by Dealogic shows.