Published by Finews Asia – 2nd Aug 2017
VP Bank’s senior management recently shared their commitment to the region emphasising ambitious recruitment plans for Asia.
Backing up their words the Liechtenstein headquartered institution has hired Christian Christow, the former head of Intermediaries Business at Deutsche Bank in Singapore, as head of Business Development, VP Bank Singapore.
Christow has been based in Asia for 10 years and has extensive local knowledge of the region. He worked at Deutsche Bank in Singapore for just under five years, prior to that he head of external asset managers at Credit Suisse with tenures in both Hong Kong and Singapore.
Before that he was a relationship manager with Julius Baer in Germany. In his new role he will report to Sylvain Gysler, head of Intermediaries at VP Bank (Singapore), the bank said in a news release.
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Further growth in the area of intermediaries headcount is planned in the coming months, finews.asia also reported on this last month.
The bank also hired Claude Chevroulet, who specialises in corporate restructuring as COO in April.
«Our plans include the strengthening of the local management team through the hiring of relationship managers and boosting of credit and compliance competencies, as regulatory pressures intensify within the region,» said Bruno Morel, CEO of VP Bank (Singapore) who also recently joined the firm.
