(Adds Pictet Asset Management, Morgan Stanley)
Oct 1 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments and departures were announced on Monday. To inform us of other job changes, email to moves@thomsonreuters.com.
STANDARD CHARTERED PLC
The bank named Tom Willett as head of mergers and acquisitions, Europe. He will be based in London. Willett joins from Royal Bank of Scotland , where most recently he was chairman of corporate finance for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
MORGAN STANLEY
A top Morgan Stanley broker, Jonathan Madrigano, who last year managed about $2 billion in client assets left the company's brokerage division on Friday to join J.P. Morgan Securities.
LAZARD LTD
The investment bank named Edward Yorke as a managing director, financial advisory and head of North America financial sponsors. He will be based in New York.
He joins from Credit Suisse, where he was managing director and vice-chairman, investment banking, the Americas.
PICTET ASSET MANAGEMENT
The asset management unit of Swiss private bank Pictet & Cie named Alain Defise head of emerging credit within the fixed income team. He will be based in London.
He joins from J.P. Morgan where he was in charge of managing the emerging corporate franchise.
BLACKROCK INC
The asset manager named James Wilkinson as European chief investment officer for its recently launched global real estate securities platform. Wilkinson joins from Thames River Capital.
BARCLAYS
The bank named Jim Murphy as director of financial institutions trade. He will be based in London.
Murphy joins from HSBC, London, where he was a director in the project & export finance.
RATE VALIDATION SERVICES
The company, which provides data for global financial markets, appointed Kevin Milne as global chief executive.
Milne joins RVS from the London Stock Exchange Group Plc
where he was a member of the executive committee responsible for its post-trade businesses and activities. ABU DHABI INVESTMENT AUTHORITY
The cash-rich emirate's sovereign wealth fund has hired Colm Lanigan to head principal investments at its private equities department, it said.
SBERBANK CIB
The unit of Sberbank named Vlada Gosal as debt capital markets (DCM) managing director. Gosal joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she was head of DCM for Russia and CIS.
CLAYTON, DUBILIER & RICE
The private equity firm named Manfred Schneider, former chairman of the supervisory board of Bayer AG as adviser.
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