Société Générale strengthens local presence in Japan

Toshiyuki Tomita has been appointed as Managing Director and Head of Société Générale Tokyo Branch’s Flow FX Sales team.

Based in Tokyo, Mr Tomita reports to Adam Reynolds, Head of Asia Pacific FIC Sales. Mr Tomita previously worked as an Executive Director at Nomura Securities Tokyo and has almost 20 years experience in the foreign exchange market.

Mr Tomita, who has also worked in FX at JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley during his career, will focus on building on his strong relationships with senior management of Japanese investors. This will involve leveraging on Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking's existing strong regional footprint in co-operation with the other sales groups across its Global Markets platform.

The company aims to build a stronger local partnership with SG's Japanese financial institution client base and to focus on providing high quality information, strong pricing and global coverage to clients in Japan as part of the Integrated Global Fixed Income and Currencies team.

This appointment will strengthen the bank’s local presence in Japan and help to further develop its Flow Fixed Income & Currencies business franchise across Asia through its globally integrated strategy.