This publication can exclusively report on a major set of hires by the UK-listed banking group.

Standard Chartered Private Bank today announced a series of strategic appointments, further enhancing its client coverage across the Greater China and North Asia region, this publication can exclusively report today.

The appointments means the UK-listed bank has hired more than 50 bankers and advisors since the fourth quarter of last year.

Jack Wu and Pauline Ko are named as managing directors, market heads and are based in Hong Kong. Both will report to Vivian Chan, regional head, private banking, Greater China & North Asia, according to a statement emailed to WealthBriefingAsia.

Wu has over 27 years of private and commercial banking experience from global financial institutions including UBS, Credit Suisse and HSBC. Prior to the appointment, he was MD and team head for Greater China at HSBC Private Bank.
 
Ko was most recently managing director, group head of Greater China at Deutsche Bank. She has held a number of leadership roles in other global banking institutions over the last 22 years, including Merrill Lynch and Julius Baer.
 
Other leadership roles added to the private banking team include Pitman Lau, MD and team leader, who joins from BNP Paribas, and Reggie Cheung, executive director and team leader, who was most recently with HSBC.

The regional front office team has taken on ten additional relationship managers, including Bell Wong and Fredric Leung, both appointed as executive directors.
The bank's investment advisory team sees the appointments of Chris Tang, Kwok-On Fung and Chris Tong, as executive directors.
 
“Standard Chartered is investing in growing our private banking business, and we are seeing significant momentum in attracting senior industry practitioners. Enhancing our regional client coverage through these senior hires remains a focus for the Private Bank,” , Didier von Daeniken, global head of private banking and wealth management, said.

The latest batch of hires follows appointments of Harry Lai, Phoebe Chow, Teddy Kwong, Peter Lam, James Ling, Kenny Choy and Kenny Wan, among others, in the first half of 2017.

The Private Bank also announced in April a partnership with Fitch Learning, a pre-eminent training and professional development firm, and INSEAD, a leading business school, to create a bespoke training programme for its front-line staff globally to enable them to deliver a higher level of service and advice to its clients.