Charles de Boissezon, the former chief executive at Banque Piguet, the Swiss private bank, has taken up the post of CEO at Hinduja Bank (Suisse), part of Hinduja, the giant India-based conglomerate with substantial banking and finance interests, this publication can exclusively report.

Boissezon was appointed CEO of Banque Piguet in 2004 and retired from the firm in 2008.

His entry in that bank’s historical timeline said of him: "With a cosmopolitan career at HSBC behind him, this Frenchman of Far Eastern extraction, whose grandfather and father were born in Shanghai, has long-standing links with China. His contacts and experience enable him to cultivate many relationships in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.”