Bank of Singapore to double wealth management staff in Hong Kong to cater to China’s rich

Published by efinancialcareers.com – 17th April 2018

In 2016, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered and Julius Baer dominated hiring in Asian private banking. Not so in 2017, according to a newly released league table for that year from Asian Private Banker which shows the number of Asia-based relationship managers employed by each bank.

We looked through the table and found the following highlights.

Published by Wealth Briefing Asia – 17th April 2018 

The head of greater China at the US lender is concentrating solely on the vice-chair role, with a replacement taking over this manager’s other position.

May Hsu, head of greater China and vice chairman for the private bank of JP Morgan, has decided to focus solely on the vice chairman role, this publication has learned.

Published by Hubbis – 16th April 2018

Citi Private Bank has appointed Julie Koo as its Head of Citi Investment Management (CIM) Sales for Asia Pacific, it announced via a press release. 

Published by eFinancialCareers.com – 22nd March 2018

Julius Baer may not be hiring quite as aggressively as in 2016, but it is still growing its front-office headcount in Singapore this year.

In the past few weeks it has taken on DBS banker Laurent Chevalley as a managing director and senior advisor, and recruited Winston Teo from Bank of Singapore as Southeast Asia team head, according to their public profiles.

Published by Asian Private Banker – 6^th April 2018

EFG has named Credit Suisse’s former APAC Vice Chairman as a candidate for its board of directors, according to media release from the bank on Friday.

Published by Wealth Briefing Asia – 5th April 2018

This publication can exclusively report on a senior hire in the market for Indonesia. Citi Private Bank has appointed Simon Kastono as global market manager for Indonesia, taking up the role from 2 April this year, this publication can reveal.