Standard Chartered Private Bank announced a series of strategic appointments, further enhancing its client coverage across the Greater China and North Asia region.
Jack Wu and Pauline Ko join the bank in the capacity of managing directors, market heads and will be based in Hong Kong. Both will report to Vivian Chan, regional head of private banking in Greater China and North Asia (GCNA), the bank said in a statement today.
Wu is a veteran private banker with over 27 years of private and commercial banking experience at companies including UBS, Credit Suisse and HSBC. Prior to the appointment, he was managing director and team head for Greater China at HSBC Private Bank.
Ko most recently was managing director, group head of Greater China at Deutsche Bank. She has held a number of leadership roles in other banking institutions over the last 22 years, including Merrill Lynch and Julius Baer.
Significant Momentum
Other leadership roles added to the private banking team include Pitman Lau, managing director and team leader, who joins the bank from BNP Paribas, and Reggie Cheung, executive director and team leader, who was most recently at HSBC. The regional front office team is further boosted with ten additional relationship managers, including Bell Wong and Fredric Leung, both appointed as executive directors.
In addition, the bank’s investment advisory team is also strengthened with the appointments of Chris Tang, Kwok-On Fung and Chris Tong, as executive directors. This latest flurry of hirings brings the total number of experienced bankers and advisers it has hired since the fourth quarter of 2016 to over 50.
