International financial staffing specialist BRUIN Financial is to open its first Asian office in Singapore. 

The office is set to open on 10 January 2011.

Meanwhile, Rachel Fitton has been appointed managing director, Asia. Fitton, was previously the regional head of north-east Asia at Reed Specialist Recruitment. She will initially be based in Singapore.

Robert Thesiger, chief executive of BRUIN Financial, says: “When we launched BRUIN Financial in March, one of our highest priorities was to ensure that we would quickly be in a position to work with our clients on a global basis.  Expanding our international footprint, starting in Singapore, will ensure that the strong partnerships we have already built in London can properly extend to Asia and that we can begin to supply talent to our clients on a genuinely global basis.”