The private banking arm of the group has made a number of top-level appointments in its Global India, Singapore and offshore China businesses.

HSBC has announced a number of moves in its private banking business across the Middle East, the “global India” business and China. 

Vivek Pandohi has been appointed head of Middle East for Global India, while Harjeet Singh is joining as senior desk head for Global India in Singapore, the bank said in a statement. Both report to Gautam Anand, who was named head of Global India earlier this year. 

Lay Hong Tan and Jay See are joining as desk heads for the Singapore market and offshore China market respectively.

Global India is structured as an international franchise spanning India and wealth hubs including Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK.

Pandohi, who has more than 23 years’ experience with HSBC across Asia and the Middle East, has spent the past decade in senior leadership roles at HSBC Private Bank in the UAE, most recently leading the UAE Global India and Expat business. In his new role he will be expanding coverage across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the bank said. 

Previously, Singh spent more than nine years at Bank of Singapore, where he was most recently managing director and market head leading the Global South Asia business. 

Tan, who has more than 30 years’ experience in financial services including 15 in private banking, was previously market team head at UBS Singapore. She will lead a Singapore domestic coverage team serving Singapore ultra-high net worth and high net worth families as well as Mandarin-speaking clients.

See, who has 18 years of private banking experience serving Chinese clients in Singapore, was most recently a China coverage specialist at Credit Suisse and UBS. He will lead the offshore China market desk in Singapore.

The editor of this news service recently reflected on the busy hiring trends in private banking and wealth management by a number of domestic Asian and international banks in the region.