Falcon Private Bank, the Abu Dhabi-owned Swiss bank which was shut in Singapore over the Malaysian 1MDB scandal, has hired two senior relationship managers with Credit Suisse ties.
Falcon Private Bank has hired Christian Blum and Gregor Cantieni, who will start working as senior relationship managers on September 1, the bank said in a statement.
Blum and Cantieni (pictured below) will report directly to Walter Berchtold, the CEO of the private bank. Berchtold and his two most recent appointments all have a past at Credit Suisse (CS), Switzerland’s second-largest bank.
Cantieni last worked for CS, where he was in charge of premium mandate services. Blum by contrast most recently was at Zurich-based Julius Baer. He joined the private bank in 2015 as head of a unit managing very rich clients in 2015. The unit had been created by Barend Fruithof, then head of Switzerland at the bank. Fruithof left a year ago. Blum departed in November.
