Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, the Japanese investment bank, has secured one of the European bond market's most well-regarded bankers, appointing Anthony Barklam as executive director and head of debt capital markets for central and eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Barklam resigned from his job as co-head of European syndicate at Morgan Stanley in January last year to take "a few months" of sabbatical after almost seven years with the US investment bank.