WRMA adds to Asian presence

The Weather Risk Management Association (WRMA), the Washington, DC-based trade association for the weather derivatives market, has added Hiroshi Matsui of Mizuho Corporate Bank to its board of directors and named Hironori Kamezawa of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTM) as the new co-chair of its Asia-Pacific committee.

Matsui, who preceeded Kamezawa as the Asia-Pacific committee’s co-chair, is head of Mizuho corporate bank’s derivatives business development team.

Kamezawa is head of BTM’s