Margaret Ren， the former star China banker who left Citigroup nearly three years ago， is to return to the industry as chairman of China investment banking for Merrill Lynch.

　　Ms Ren， 48， who boasted 12 years of investment banking with Bear Stearns and Citigroup.

　　Her contacts in China helped her bag a number of lucrative share sales for her employers.

　　However， she and a colleague were suspended by Citigroup in June 2004 for allegedly presenting “false information to the company and its regulators” and she left the bank.

　　Merrill Lynch said that Ms Ren had been employed to help strengthen the bank's China franchise. Damian Chunilal， head of Pacific Rim investment banking at Merrill Lynch， brushed aside fears that Ms Ren was “yesterday's banker”， given that market conditions have changed during her absence.

　　在離開花旗集團近3年后，任克英將重返金融業，出任美林中國區投資銀行業務總裁，她曾是中國的明星銀行家。

　　現年48歲的任克英自詡曾在貝爾斯登和花旗集團有過12年的投資銀行從業經驗。

　　任克英在中國的關系網，曾幫助她為雇主贏得了許多有利可圖的

　　然而，因涉嫌“向公司和監管機構提供虛假信息”，任克英和另一名同事于2004年6月被花旗集團停職。隨后，她離開了花旗。

　　美林表示，雇用任克英將有助于加強該銀行在中國的特許經營業務。

　　美林環太平洋地區投行業務主管達米安·丘尼拉利沒有理會對任克英是“過時銀行家”的擔憂，即在她離開期間市場環境已發生改變。