Credit Suisse has strengthened its French private banking team with the appointment of Yves Saint-Requier as a senior advisor and board member to Credit Suisse Banque Privée (France).

Saint-Requier was latterly director, a member of the executive board and administrator at Neuflize-Vie, before which he held the role of director of private clients at Banque Neuflize OBC.

In his new role he will be particularly in charge of developing activities for high net worth clients.

In other recent news, only last week the bank appointed François Essertel as the new head of its private bank in France and president of the board of directors for Credit Suisse France. He replaced Hervé de Montlivault, who was given responsibility for services and advisory for French private clients across the world.