Barclays has hired Jorge Martinez, HSBC's head of oil and gas for Asia, to be its head of oil and gas for Asia-Pacific, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Martinez will join Barclays in the latter half of this year and is expected to be based in Hong Kong.
Barclays reshuffled its industry coverage about a year ago and the oil and gas coverage role was understood to have been vacant for some time. Marc Benton, the bank's former head of oil and gas investment banking, left in May last year and, shortly after that, Paul Early was named head of natural resources for...