KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday appointed Andy Lim as the head of its new corporate client banking business in Malaysia.

Lim will focus on expanding the American firm's commercial banking business to support financing, transaction and treasury needs of Malaysian-headquartered companies, JPMorgan said in a statement.

Lim was previously an executive director with Farosson, the advisory and asset management arm of Yinson Group, a Malaysia-based energy infrastructure and technology company.

(Reporting by A. Ananthalakshmi; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)