Credit Suisse has appointed Martin Keeble as chief executive, president and representative director of Credit Suisse Securities (Japan). He will continue to be based in Tokyo.

Keeble will be responsible for all the business activities of Credit Suisse Securities (Japan), which includes its private banking and wealth management and investment banking divisions. He will report to Eric Varvel, Credit Suisse’s CEO for Asia Pacific.

“Japan is a key country both for our private banking and wealth management division, where we are successfully building a differentiated wealth management business, and for our global investment banking division, from which we serve institutional and corporate clients from all over the world,” Varvel said.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2000, Keeble was deputy branch manager and head of sales and trading and dealing at Schroder Securities Limited in Japan. He has also worked for firms, including Nikko Europe in London and Smith New Court Securities in Tokyo, dealing in Japanese equities.