Scott Austin is joining BNP Paribas Australia’s loan syndications and acquisition finance team in Sydney. Austin joins from the bank’s project finance team in Sydney. Before that he worked with Rabobank in Australia and Natexis Banques Populaire in the UK.

He replaces Russell Baines who is moving to BNP Paribas’ debt capital markets team in Singapore after seven years with the bank in Sydney, the last three-and-a-half years in the loan syndications and acquisition finance team.