The banking group has recruited a former ABN AMRO and Standard Chartered private banker for a Hong Kong-based role.

Bank J Safra Sarasin has confirmed that it has appointed former senior ABN AMRO private banker Feroze Sukh as a managing director, client advisory, effective 29 February 2016.

Sukh will manage a team of six, three of whom have already joined the bank, covering the non-resident Indian and international markets. He reports to Yelandur Nagendra, deputy chief executive, Asia, and is based at the firm’s Hong Kong Branch.

In December last year, this publication reported that Sukh had left the Netherlands-headquartered lender to work at Bank J Safra Sarasin, according to details from sources.

Having worked in the industry for more than a decade, Sukh most recently worked for ABN AMRO in Hong Kong. In 2015 he won WealthBriefingAsia’s “International Clients Team” award and has won an award while at the private bank of Standard Chartered.

Sukh has also previously worked at Deutsche Bank.

In October last year, Michael Low, a Singapore-based director who has led Sarasin Trust Company (Singapore) as head of trust and fiduciary services for Asia, left the bank.