Mizuho hires Maybank's Gupta to head APAC healthcare, consumer ex-Japan

Mizuho hires Maybank's Gupta to head APAC healthcare, consumer ex-Japan

FILE PHOTO: Mizuho Bank's signboard is pictured in Tokyo, Japan, January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Mizuho Financial Group, Japan’s third-largest lender by assets, has hired Maybank’s Saurabh Gupta to lead its healthcare and consumer sectors in Asia Pacific excluding Japan, according to two sources familiar with the matter.