J.P. Morgan appoints Ryoji Kanazawa to its platform sales, collateral services team in Japan.
Kanazawa will help the expansion of Japan's sales footprint and will be focusing on local Japanese opportunities, reporting to Will Jeffries.
He has 15 years of experience in service, sales and relationship management across securities finance and collateral management.
Prior to this role, Kanazawa spent almost three years as service director, lead manager at BNY Mellon in Tokyo, handling securities lending, global custody, foreign exchange, alternative investments and offshore funds.
Before this, he was a director at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities for eight years, responsible for securities financing and collateral operations in the institutional securities group. He also worked for one year as an account manager for global securities financing at State Street. Both roles were based in Tokyo.
