BNP Paribas has tapped yet another investment banker for its team of ultra-high net worth private bankers in Hong Kong. The newest hire joins from rival Deutsche Bank.
By Shruti Advani, Guest Contributor finews.asia
The Paris-based firm BNP Paribas continues to think laterally for new hires into its private bank in Asia, tapping into its own investment bank as well as industry leaders such as Citi and Credit Suisse.
BNP has hired Vishal Mirpuri, ex-head of listed derivatives at Deutsche Bank, as a managing director on its Hong Kong team servicing ultra-high net worth clients, as finews.asia can reveal. He in one in a slew of hires the French bank has made, including Charly Madan, who used to be part of Credit Suisse’s investment bank and is now on its team of Thai ultra-high net worth bankers.
Seven Years With Citi
Mirpuri began his career in Hong Kong in 2003 at Citigroup Global Markets where he worked on the equity derivative sales desk as a salesperson covering global hedge fund and asset managers on equity derivative and delta-1 products; spending seven years at the bank.
He then took the opportunity to join Deutsche Bank in Tokyo as Head of Flow Sales Japan until he was asked to take on a broader regional role in 2011 as Head of Flow Sales APAC, relocating to Hong Kong. He was a Responsible Officer of Deutsche Securities Asia (DSAL) and was in 2014 appointed to the Global Equity Derivatives Executive Committee.
