UAE: HSBC has hired Citigroup’s co-head of equities Kaveh Samie as managing director and head of equities, responsible for the bank’s equities and investment banking businesses in the Middle East. Before joining Citigroup in 1993, he was with financial services provider Oppenheimer & Co and previous to that he worked for Switzerland-based Bank Julius Baer and Prudential Securities covering asset managers and family groups from the region.