RBS Coutts has recruited eight new private bankers to bolster its capabilities across South-east Asia.

Date: Oct 8, 2010

Tags: RBS Coutts, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand

RBS Coutts has recruited eight new private bankers to bolster its capabilities across South-east Asia.

Bruno Merlino will join the bank on 1 December as team leader for Indonesia. He was previously with UBS in Singapore as an executive director and head of its Indonesia desk.

Also to cover the Indonesian market, and also from UBS, Marco Fleischmann has joined RBS Coutts as a senior private banker. He had served as the chief representative of the Swiss bank’s representative office in Jakarta.

Syed Al-Idid has joined RBS Coutts as a senior private banker to lead a new team focused on developing the firm’s Malaysian offering. He moved from Credit Suisse Private Bank in Singapore, where he was a senior relationship manager.

RBS Coutts also recently hired Julian Chester as a private banker, to cover the expatriate market in Singapore and South-east Asia. He was previously with Standard Chartered Bank.

In the Singapore/Malaysia team, RBS Coutts has hired Gwendaline Lim as a senior private banker from Hong Leong Bank, and Daniel Tang as a private banker from United Overseas Bank.

For the Thailand team, James Pang and Aaron Ng have joined RBS Coutts as private bankers. Both were previously relationship managers at HSBC in Singapore.

Said Nick Pollard, chief executive officer of RBS Coutts in Asia: “We have ambitious plans to double our business in Asia over the next three to four years and hiring is a key part of our growth strategy. We have made 150 hires in Asia over the last 12 months.”