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Four months after Commonwealth Bank shuffled the decks in its business banking unit, retrenched senior executives are making moves.

Hotel, tourism and leisure outfit HTL Group has swooped on former CommBank general manager of client acquisition Mario Saia and NSW head of client acquisition Andrew Hazell to establish a debt advisory business under its umbrella.

Saia is joining as a co-founder and national director in the newly established corporate advisory business, with Hazell as a director.

HTL Group’s expansion into debt comes days after this column reported that three of Judo Bank’s senior commercial bankers had struck out on their own to establish a national debt advisory and brokerage business based in Melbourne.

Read the full story tomorrow and more on the Street Talk page.

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