DeRooij rejoins ABN Amro
ABN Amro has appointed Maureen DeRooij as the bank’s new country executive in Hong Kong and CEO of large corporates and merchant banking in Asia, effective September 1.
She rejoins the bank from Standard Chartered in Singapore, where she was regional head of Southeast Asia for small and medium sized enterprises. She left ABN Amro in 2004 to join Citibank as head of global structure commodity products in New York.
She will take over from Maiike Steineback and will also take on her responsibilities as head of energy, commodities and transportation for Asia.
RBS syndicate banker leaves to join rival
Rogerio Bernardo, a debt syndicate banker at RBS in Singapore, left the bank last week after 16 years with the company, sources confirm to Asiamoney PLUS. He is said to be joining a rival bank, though sources could not disclose his next destination.
Bernardo, who was at a director level, focused on RBS’ bond syndicate and medium-term notes business. He joined the bank in 1996 out of university.
His resignation followed the departure of Vincent Wong, a managing director in RBS’ debt capital markets (DCM) team, on July 9. Sources close to Wong also noted that he would be joining a rival bank, though could not disclose the destination.
Sources with knowledge of RBS’ DCM desk say that Wong’s duties expanded to include many of the responsibilities formerly held by Augusto King, RBS’ head of DCM who left the bank in March to join Jefferies in a senior DCM role.
Barclays names heads of North Asia and greater China
Vivian Chan will take over as regional head of North Asia at the wealth and investment management division of Barclays, effective August 5. She will report to Didier von Daeniken, head of wealth management for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa.
She joins from Credit Suisse, where she was managing director and market leader for greater China. In addition the bank’s wealth management arm has promoted Carol Chen to market head of its greater China business.
She moves from her role as market head of the greater China desk in Singapore and will now also oversee the Hong Kong based team. She will relocate to Hong Kong on October 1.
RBC Wealth Management in SE Asia product hires
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Wealth Management has hired Tuti Go and Johannes Wijaya from Bank Sarasin.
Both will become senior directors for Southeast Asia based in Singapore, and will report to Samuel Witjaksono, executive director of RBC Wealth Management for Southeast Asia. Go has worked in the industry for 20 years and Wijaya for 11 years. Before working for Sarasin both worked at UBS.
In addition the bank has hired Paulus Moniaga as senior director for Southeast Asia, based in Singapore, reporting to Kusnadi Sudikarman, senior director for the firm. He also joins from Sarasin, before which he worked for Nomura.
Nelson Ilham has also joined the bank’s wealth management arm, as director and head of fixed income advisory and execution, based in Singapore. He reports to Mary Sumners, head of investments for Asia. He joins from Hong Leong Bank in Singapore, where he worked for four years. Before that he was at DBS. His role is a new one.
Nikko AM adds to investment and risk teams
Nikko Asset Management has hired Winson Fong as head of China strategies, Shivaz Raj as investment director for Asian fixed income and Tian Sing Wee has joined as risk manager. All three will be based in Singapore. In addition, James Alexander has joined Tyndall Asset Management as deputy head of fixed income, based out of Australia.
Alexander has worked in financial markets for more than 24 years, in research, trading and fixed income portfolio management. In his new job, he will report to Roger Bridges, head of fixed income at the Tyndall AM.
Fong will cover Chinese onshore A-shares mandates and product development. He joins from Lion Global Investors in Singapore. Raj joins from Alchemy Investment Management in Singapore and has covered equities, fixed income, currencies and convertibles for 15 years. He will oversee Asian local currency and rates as well as Asian credit strategy.
Wee’s focus is on risk and performance management and he joins Nikko AM from the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). Raj and Wee will report directly to Eleanor Seet, president of Nikko AM Asia. Fong will report to Soo Nam Ng, chief investment officer at Nikko AM Asia.