A roundup of moves affecting senior roles in wealth management for the APAC region.

Capital Group appointed Guillermo Veiga as chief information officer. He succeeded Marta Zarraga, who retired at the end of the year. Veiga relocated to California from Singapore, where he serves as group chief information and operations officer at Standard Chartered Bank. Veiga held senior technology and operations positions throughout Europe and Asia at Amazon Web Services, Cisco and Banco Santander.

Kelly Yang joined the Bank of Singapore as a senior relationship manager. Based in Hong Kong, she reports to Anne Song, market head for Greater China & North Asia (GCNA). An industry veteran, she most recently served as a team head at Bank J Safra Sarasin, after more than a decade as a team head at DBS Bank Hong Kong. 

Eastspring Investments appointed Ghislain Périssé as head of insurance solutions. Based in Singapore, Périssé reports to Salman Haider, chief distribution officer, head of ASEAN, Eastspring Investments and CEO of Eastspring Singapore. He joined from Eastspring from Fidelity International, where he was global head of insurance solutions for EMEA and APAC. 

Bank of Singapore appointed a former Julius Baer senior banker for its Global South Asia franchise. Ankit Swaika, who is based in Singapore, worked at Julius Baer from the start of 2017; prior to this, he was a director for just over two years at ANZ, also based in Singapore. Swaika reports to Zubin Dabu, market group head, Middle East, Global South Asia and International.

EFG International appointed Ranjit Khanna as chief executive of its Dubai Advisory Office, reporting to Patrick Ramsey, head of Continental Europe and Middle East. Formerly, he was DIFC chief executive at Bank of Singapore. 

Barclays Private Bank confirmed that Neil Cabral was named head of multi-family office and external asset management in the United Arab Emirates. Prior to joining Barclays, Cabral was CEO of a single-family office, GFG Alliance. 

Harneys, an offshore law firm, appointed Esure Wu as counsel in its private wealth team, based in the Shanghai office. Wu advises ultra-high net worth Asian individuals and families, as well as trust companies and single- and multi-family offices, on preserving, protecting and transferring wealth across borders and generations.

360 ONE, an Indian wealth, asset manager and capital markets group, appointed Abhishek Bhalotia as chief growth and people officer. Prior to this, Bhalotia worked at Kotak Group, where he spent more than three decades in leadership roles. 

Standard Chartered Private Bank appointed Koo Kin Keong as a managing director and team head for Greater China. Meanwhile, He Fang Fang and Iris Fang both joined as directors. They report to Hu Hong, the bank’s Singapore-based market group head for Greater China. In the Thailand and Philippines teams, which are based in Singapore, Roger Chew joined as a managing director and cluster lead, and Louis Oh joined as a director. Chew and Oh report to Nicholas Cheng, market head for Thailand/Philippines and global head of the private markets group.

UOB appointed Tan Choon Hin in the newly-created role of head of ASEAN and Greater China. Tan also oversees its foreign direct investment advisory unit, a dedicated team that helps companies seize cross-border growth opportunities. Previously, he was deputy chief risk officer. Tan has more than 30 years of banking, credit and risk management experience across ASEAN and Greater China. He joined UOB in 2012.

LGT Wealth India appointed Harsh Agarwal as chief investment officer for its equities business. Most recently, he had been president, specialised investment funds, at 360 ONE Asset, the Indian financial services group. 

VP Bank Ltd Singapore Branch appointed Vincent Koo as chief risk officer. Koo has more than three decades of experience in audit, compliance and risk management, spanning compliance, legal, operational and business risk. 

DBS appointed three internal executives to senior leadership roles in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indonesia. These hires followed the retirement of Sebastian Paredes as chief executive of DBS Bank (Hong Kong) and head of North Asia. He is to leave these roles on 1 March 2027, and will remain as a senior advisor at the bank. 

Ng Sier Han, CEO of DBS Taiwan, will succeed Paredes as CEO of DBS Bank (Hong Kong) from the start of next March. Lim Chu Chong, president director of DBS Indonesia, will become CEO of DBS Taiwan from 1 January 2027. Adrian Chai, a managing director in DBS's institutional banking group, will take over as president director of DBS Indonesia from 1 December this year. 

Paredes, who has led DBS Bank (Hong Kong) since September 2010, has been chairman of DBS China since April 2023. Ng has been CEO of DBS Taiwan since 2023. Lim, who has been president director of PT Bank DBS Indonesia since August 2022, previously served as chief operating officer of IBG and as head of DBS IBG China. Chai has worked within the institutional banking group, covering the automotive, food and agribusiness, and metals and mining sectors. 

Bahren Shaare, a former chief executive of Bank of Singapore and Singapore business figure, joined Asia’s WRISE as senior advisor to its group executive committee.

Eastspring Investments appointed Sean Cunningham in the new role of head of Capital Markets. Based in Singapore, he reports to Ioannis Kampouris, head of Quantitative Strategies. Most recently, he was head of ETFs for Asia at JP Morgan Asset Management in Hong Kong.

Royal Bank of Canada appointed Kamran Azim as head of wealth management in Asia and CEO of the RBC Singapore branch. Azim will succeed Rod Ireland, who is to retire after more than 25 years working in the bank. Azim, who has worked at RBC for almost two decades, was initially based in Toronto, and then held leadership positions including head of private banking, Singapore, and chief operating officer, wealth management for Asia.

Franklin Templeton appointed Elizabeth Hogbin as head of global product and Rene Buehlmann as head of Asia Pacific. Patrick O’Connor transitioned from head of global exchange traded funds (ETFs) to vice chairman of the Global Client Group. 

The former chief executive of VP Bank, Reto Marx, joined Sygnum Bank, a global digital asset banking group, as CEO of its Singapore business. Gerald Goh, Sygnum co-founder and Asia-Pacific CEO, transitioned to the role of executive chairman of Sygnum APAC. At VP Bank, Marx, a Swiss national, recently served as CEO, co-head for Singapore and chief risk officer, Asia of VP Bank Singapore. He also held senior positions at UBS, Credit Suisse and Bank Sarasin.

M&G Investments appointed Luke Chang as general manager and head of intermediary distribution, Taiwan. Chang is based in Taipei and reports to Amy Cho, head of Asia-Pacific, M&G Investments. Chang has nearly two decades of experience in investment management, distribution and business leadership in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China. He joined from AXA Investment Managers, where he was most recently CEO of AXA Investment Managers Shanghai and head of sales, China. 

Global law firm Freshfields appointed private capital partner Sean Donovan to join its global M&A and capital practice in Singapore. Donovan rejoined Freshfields from Permira, where he served as a managing director for six years in Hong Kong, Singapore and London.