Jacob-Nebout said that Salawi's experience in complementary business lines such as investment and private banking will help accelerate aligning the commercial needs of its UHNW and SFO clients. Jacob-Nebout joined Indosuez at the start of the year from a long career at BNP Paribas, where she was most recently head of development and innovation.

Salawi has also been tapped from BNP Paribas in Switzerland, and will oversee Indosuez's private client business in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. The Swiss arm of the wealth management franchise owned by Crédit Agricole manages around SFr40 billion in assets for clients in those regions.

Salawi began his career in 1996 in M&A at UBS in London before joining Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette’s investment banking unit. In 2001, he joined Deutsche Bank's investment banking division in Paris, moving into private banking for Deutsche in London and Geneva in 2007. He holds a master's degree in financial management from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.