HSBC Private Bank has announced a series of senior appointments to strengthen its Global India, Singapore, and offshore China businesses.
HSBC Private Bank has made several appointments in the Middle East and Singapore to further strengthen its proposition to serve entrepreneurs and family business owners.
For the non-resident Indian (NRI) segment, it has appointed Vivek Pandohi as head of Middle East – Global India, and Harjeet Singh as senior desk head, Global India, Singapore. They both report to head of Global India Gautam Anand.
Pandohi has more than 23 years of experience with HSBC across Asia and the Middle East. Over the past decade, he has held senior leadership roles at the British private bank in the UAE, most recently leading the UAE Global India & expat business. In the new role, he will lead Global India coverage in Middle Eastern markets with a focus on expanding coverage in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and further strengthening coordination across regional teams and the wider global India network.
Singh joins from Bank of Singapore, where he spent over nine years, most recently as managing director and market head leading the Global South Asia business. He will lead one of the bank’s Global India desks in Singapore with increased focus on growing the business in the region and strengthening capabilities for the client segment.
HSBC’s Global India business is structured as an international franchise spanning India and key wealth hubs including Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the UK. According to the bank, this structure enables teams to work more closely around clients with multiple geographical needs, combining local relationships with international reach.
Singapore and China coverage
In addition, HSBC Private Bank has named Lay Hong Tan as desk head, Singapore market, and Jay See as desk head, offshore China market (Singapore).
Tan will lead a Singapore domestic coverage team, focusing on the city-state’s high net worth and ultra-high net worth families as well as Mandarin-speaking clients in the region. He has more than 30 years of financial industry experience, including 15 years in private banking. Previously, he was a market team head at UBS Singapore.
See will lead the offshore China market desk in Singapore, strengthening connectivity across Greater China and Southeast Asia. He has 18 years of private banking experience serving Chinese clients in Singapore and was most recently a China coverage specialist at Credit Suisse and UBS.
“Entrepreneurs and business-owning families are increasingly international – their businesses may be in one market, their investments in another, and family members across several more. Our job is to make those borders easier for our clients to navigate. That is why how we organise and connect our teams matters,” said Tommy Leung, head of private bank, South Asia, HSBC.
“Global India brings together our capabilities across India and key international wealth hubs, allowing our bankers to work more closely across markets around the client. By strengthening leadership in the Middle East and Singapore, alongside our continued investment in Singapore and China coverage, we are building deeper market expertise while making the breadth of HSBC’s international network more accessible to our clients.”
