The latest moves, appointments and personnel changes in the Asia-Pacific wealth management region.

UOB, NETS
Singapore-based payment services group Network for Electronic Transfers has appointed UOB head of group technology and operations, Lawrence Goh, to join its board.

Goh is succeeding Eddie Khoo, senior Advisor to UOB in Vietnam, as a UOB representative to the NETS board. Khoo was previously the head of group personal financial services.

With a career in business transformation spanning more than three decades, Goh has held positions as the head of group infrastructure platform services and chief operating officer for GTO at UOB. 

At the moment, Goh head of team of more than 7,000 staff across the region. In other roles, he is the Technology and Operations Workgroup co-chair of the MAS-ABS Cross Border Governance Steering Committee and a member of the ABS Digitalisation Standing Committee. He also sits on the Singapore Clearing House Association as UOB’s alternate director.

NETS operates Singapore’s national debit scheme enabling customers of DBS Bank/POSB, HSBC, Maybank, OCBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and UOB to make payments at more than 130,000 acceptance points in the country. 

The NETS Group manages and operates Singapore’s clearing and payment infrastructure for core electronic transfer services FAST, Interbank GIRO, eGiro and PayNow. It says it is the market leader providing payment and clearing solutions (Real-Time Gross Settlement system and Cheque Truncation System) in the region.