Representatives from Barclays and JPMorgan declined to comment.
Ee Ching Tay, the head of Southeast Asia mergers and acquisitions at JPMorgan Chase & Co., is leaving the bank after about a decade, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Tay, a Singapore-based managing director at JPMorgan, tendered her resignation last week and is now on gardening leave, according to the people. She is set to join Barclays Plc as head of Southeast Asia banking and will start around the middle of the year, one of the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is private.
