DBS Bank for nine years at its Hong Kong
branch. His last position with the Singapore
bank was senior vice president of syndicated
finance in the institutional banking group.
Before DBS, he worked for Mizuho Bank for
about seven years. MAYBANK has appointed John Lee Hin Hock as
its new Singapore CEO, effective December 1.
Lee, the group’s current chief risk officer,
replaces Lim Hong Tat, who is transferring
back to Malaysia to run Maybank’s community
banking division.
Lee joined Maybank in 2011. He was previously a
partner at KPMG for 13 years. Andrew Pang has left HSBC as a director of the
leveraged and acquisition finance team in Hong
Kong after nearly six years.
Pang’s last day was on Tuesday. He is expected
to join Deutsche Bank in the new year.
Prior to HSBC, Pang was vice president at
Nomura for two years on the consumer and
retail sector coverage team, based in London,
according to his LinkedIn profile. Before
Nomura, he was a New York-based associate at
Lehman Brothers with the media and telecom
sector coverage team for over three years.
Pang began his banking career in August 2003
as an M&A analyst with Credit Suisse in London. Former UBS Australia and New Zealand
chief economist Scott Haslem will join CRESTONE
WEALTH MANAGEMENT as chief investment officer
in January.
Crestone was formed in 2016 from the
management buyout of UBS’s wealth-
management operations in Australia.
Haslem will replace David Sokulsky, who is
leaving the firm.
Haslem was with UBS for 18 years. Prior to that,
he was at the Reserve Bank of Australia for
seven years. DBS BANK has hired Jern Siew as a vice
president, project finance, for its Sydney
branch to focus on renewables, power and
infrastructure.
He was previously with ANZ for 15 years in
various roles, most recently as an associate
director, lending services, in charge of the
management of distressed institutional and PF
accounts, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He started his new role in September and
reports to Ze Ling Chen, senior vice president,
institutional banking group. Freddie Kwah has joined TAIPEI FUBON BANK’s
corporate finance department, covering the loan
syndication market of South and South-East
Asia.
Based in Singapore, Kwah reports to Brian But,
Hong Kong-based first vice president for the
corporate finance department.
Kwah joins from First Abu Dhabi Bank, where
he was the regional head of syndication and
distribution for about four years. Prior to FADB,
Kwah was with DBS Bank’s syndication team.
Before that, he was at West LB. Jiang Xuetao has joined CHINA SECURITIES
(INTERNATIONAL) as managing director and head
of global capital markets, according to an
internal memo IFR has seen.
Prior to joining CSI, Jiang was MD in the capital
markets department at CICC, overseeing the
equities capital markets business.
In his new role, Jiang will lead both ECM and
debt capital markets departments, and assist
the CEO Hu Bin in managing the alternative
investment department. He will report directly
to the CEO. Boston-based advisory and restructuring
company GORDON BROTHERS GROUP has hired
Matthew Aubrey and Fenton Healy as managing
directors as part of its expansion in Australia.Aubrey was previously the owner of Plant &
Equipment Solutions, an asset-management
and sale specialist, which retail and auction
firm GraysOnline acquired in 2012. Healy also
joins from GraysOnline, where he was a major
shareholder.
Gordon Brothers opened its Sydney office
in March and hired Tim Stewart to run the
business. Veteran loan banker Justin Crane is leaving
STANDARD CHARTERED to pursue interests outside
banking.
Crane will leave at the end of the month
after nearly five years as global head of loan
syndicate and distribution.
He joined StanChart in Singapore in February
2013 after two and a half years with Credit
Suisse as head of loan syndicate for Asia,
excluding Japan. Prior to Credit Suisse, he was
at Barclays and, before that, at Citigroup.
He started his banking career with Barclays in
the UK under a graduate programme in 1996
and moved to Asia in 1998 with responsibility for
credit risk. He started in loan syndications with
the Barclays in 2001 before moving to Citigroup.
He spent 16 of his 21 years in banking in loan
syndications.
Crane follows other loans bankers to leave
StanChart in recent months. Last month,
Pramita Saha, head of loan syndicate and
distribution in the Americas left after slightly
over three years.
The same month, Gaurav Shukla, a director for
loan syndications in Mumbai, left after slightly
over eight years with the bank.
In July, Samuel Tan left as an executive director
in the loan syndicate and distribution team after
three years. Tan joined United Overseas Bank as
co-head of the loan syndication and distribution
team last month.
In May, Aakash Desai, a managing director
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