UPDATE 3-MOVES-Societe Generale, Bank of America, RBC, AXA

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NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Wednesday. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.

AXA EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

AXA has named Claude Methot executive vice president of life and annuity product development. He was previously senior vice president and chief product officer at AXA Equitable and had held other roles at parent firm AXA Group.

SOCIETE GENERALE CORPORATE & INVESTMENT BANKING

The French bank has hired Kelly Broadhurst as a senior institutional sales person, to market equity derivatives to U.S. long-only asset managers. Broadhurst was previously at UBS in a similar role.

BANK OF AMERICA CORP (BAC.N)

The bank replaced Andrew Gissinger of Countrywide Financial Corp with one of its own long-serving executives, Craig Buffie, The Wall Street Journal said.

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ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (RY.TO)

The bank appointed Doug McGregor and Mark Standish as co-chief executives of RBC Capital Markets, effective Nov. 1. McGregor will be based in Toronto and Standish will be based in New York.

PIONEER INVESTMENTS

Investment management firm Pioneer has hired Sylvain Ghisoni as head of distribution for the French, Belgian and Luxembourg markets. Ghisoni will be responsible for fund of funds, private banking, structured products and regional banking customers. He was previously senior relationship manager at Fortis Investments.

BBU BANK

The community bank appointed Rafael Saldana as president and chief executive. Saldana was previously with R-G Crown Bank.

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