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ABN AMRO Bolsters Private Banking Team In Asia With Group Of Hires

Tom Burroughes Group Editor 9 January 2014

ABN AMRO Bolsters Private Banking Team In Asia With Group Of Hires

ABN AMRO Private Banking[/tag], part of Netherlands-headquartered ABN AMRO, has added four senior private bankers to its team in Hong Kong.

ABN AMRO Private Banking, part of Netherlands-headquartered ABN AMRO, has added four senior private bankers to its team in Hong Kong.

The bank has appointed Aditya Jayarama, reporting to Ian Pollock, regional head of private banking for North Asia.

Jayarama will lead ABN AMRO’s World South Asian Services team in North Asia, and joins the bank from Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, where he was senior director of the Global India Team. He was with UBS in Hong Kong from 2007 to 2011, and before moving offshore he worked with Deutsche Bank, ABN AMRO and Citibank in Mumbai.

Raymond Cheung joined the bank in December as North Asia Team head, having spent the past 11 years providing advice to clients in Greater China on business development, fund raising and financial planning. Cheung spent the first 18 years of his career with HSBC Private Bank and ING Barings Private Bank.

Reporting to Cheung is senior private banker Connie Lam; she has extensive experience in private banking, most recently with VP Bank. She spent 10 years at EFG Private Bank, before which she worked at Deutsche Private Bank, BNP Paribas Private Bank and HSBC Private Bank.

Steven Lee also joined the Greater China team as senior private banker, reporting to Angela Wu, market manager for China, the firm said. He has over 15 years of experience in financial markets, most recently with CICC and Goldman Sachs. In the early part of his career, he was an equity derivatives trader, a foreign exchange trader and a multi-product sales trader at Lehman Asia, Prudential Bache and Citi.

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