Mr Hunt will be responsible for spearheading Standard Bank’s private client acquisition programme, focusing specifically on clients in the Middle East, Kenya and Nigeria.

He was most recently at Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander as director, head of International, where he was involved in establishing offices in Dubai and Qatar to service high net worth clients in the gulf region and to assist with the restructuring of the international Private Banking business.

Prior to this, he was at Kleinwort Benson Private Bank where he was appointed head of International Private Clients in 2002.