Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. announced that Michael Yarian has been appointed to the group as international business head of Sales and Trading, and regional head of Sales and Trading for the Americas. As the international business head of Sales and Trading, Yarian will be responsible for the development and execution of the business strategy and for management of risk for the International Sales and Trading business, closely collaborating with international leadership and relevant stakeholders. In his Americas role, Yarian will focus on continuing to build closer coordination across bank and Securities entities, while strategically growing the Global Markets business in the region.

He will be based in New York. Yarian, who has nearly three decades of relevant financial services experience, has most recently held the global head of Flow Rates Trading and the head of Americas Global Debt Markets roles at HSBC. Yarian has previously spent 20 years at Barclays in various leadership positions across the Sales and Trading businesses.