SINGAPORE, Oct 19 (Reuters) - JPMorgan has appointed Sophie Qian as the head of its Equity Capital Markets (ECM) team for Southeast Asia, according to a memo seen by Reuters and confirmed by the U.S. bank. The Southeast Asia ECM team will report to Qian with immediate effect, the memo said. The banker joined JPMorgan's U.S. ECM team last year, where she focused on U.S./Asia cross border deals and SPACs. She will report to Peihao Huang and Sunil Dhupelia, JPMorgan's co-heads of ECM for Asia exJapan. Earlier this year, Novan Amirudin, who used to head JPMorgan's Southeast Asia ECM team and was also its Malaysia investment banking chief, resigned to become the co-CEO of Malaysian bank CIMB's group wholesale banking business.

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