摩根大通亞洲投行副主席離職
Todd Marin, the vice-chairman of JPMorgan’s Asian investment bank, has become the latest senior executive to step down from the company, which is under investigation over its hiring practices in the region.
在摩根大通(JPMorgan)因在亞洲的招聘行爲接受調查之際，其亞洲區投行業務副主席馬宏濤(Todd Marin)成爲最新一個離職高管。The departure of Mr Marin, 53, was announced to staff in an internal memo last week, according to a person familiar with the matter. He will stay on to oversee a period of transition, which is likely to last a number of weeks.
知情人士稱，現年53歲的馬宏濤離職的消息，是上週該行在一份內部備忘錄中向其員工公佈的。他將留任約數週作爲過渡。
JPMorgan has been under investigation by US authorities since 2013 into whether it hired family members of Chinese government officials in order to win business.
自2013年以來，摩根大通一直在接受美國當局調查。調查內容爲該行是否爲贏得業務而聘用中國政府官員家屬。
The probe prompted the bank to withdraw from two large initial public offerings in Hong Kong — that of Tianhe Chemical and Everbright Bank.
這一調查迫使該行撤出了在香港股市的兩次大規模首次公開招股(IPO)，一次是天合化工(Tianhe Chemical)的上市，另一次是光大銀行(Everbright Bank)的上市。Neither JPMorgan nor any individual at the bank have been accused of wrongdoing, either in the US or Hong Kong. A number of other investment banks have also been questioned as part of the probe into hiring practices in Asia.
不論在美國還是在香港，摩根大通及該行任何個人都未受到不良行爲指控。在此次對亞洲招聘行爲的調查過程中，還有幾家其他投行也曾接受問詢。A series of emails, published last week in the Wall Street Journal, detailed one particular case in which the son of a Chinese commerce ministry official was hired by the bank despite a series of negative reviews from colleagues.
《華爾街日報》(WSJ)上週披露的多封電子郵件中，透露出其中一個案例的一些細節。在這一案例中，一位中國商務部官員的兒子被該行聘用，儘管多位同事對他做了負面評價。Hiring individuals in order to secure specific business mandates would be in violation of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
爲了敲定某項商業業務而聘用某些個人的行爲，違反了美國《反海外腐敗法》(Foreign Corrupt Practices Act)。Mr Marin’s retirement comes just two weeks after Frank Gong, chairman of China investment banking at JPMorgan, announced that he too would step down after less than a year in the job.
就在馬宏濤離職兩週前，摩根大通中國投資銀行主席龔方雄曾宣佈，他也會在任期未滿一年之際卸任。Mr Gong took over from Fang Fang, who resigned last year, and has since been interviewed by Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption in relation to bank hiring.
龔方雄是接替去年辭職的方方擔任這一職務的。在辭職之後，方方一直因與銀行招聘有關的問題接受香港廉政公署調查。
