{"id":59749,"date":"2026-06-11T04:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=59749"},"modified":"2026-06-11T04:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:11:04","slug":"bank-of-singapore-names-new-private-banking-head-for-middle-east-south-asia-and-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=59749","title":{"rendered":"Bank Of Singapore Names New Private Banking Head For Middle East, South Asia And International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inset-img\" alt=\"Bank Of Singapore Names New Private Banking Head For Middle East, South Asia And International \" src=\"https:\/\/wealthbriefing.com\/cms\/images\/app\/People\/Lim%20Leong%20Guan(1).jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">A new head has been appointed for the private bank&#8221;s operations in the Middle East, South Asia and International business.\t  \t  \t  \t  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthbriefingasia.com\\\/section.php?keywords=Bank%20of%20Singapore\">Bank of&#13;<br \/>\n  Singapore<\/a> has appointed Lim Leong Guan (main picture)&#13;<br \/>\n  as\u00a0head of private banking for Middle East, South Asia &amp;&#13;<br \/>\n  International, taking over the role vacated by the departure \u2013&#13;<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthbriefingasia.com\/article.php\/Bank-Of-Singapore%27s-Ranjit-Khanna-Steps-Down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n  reported here<\/a> \u2013 of Ranjit Khanna.\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Based in Dubai, Lim \u2013 who joined BoS in 2020 \u2013\u00a0will also be&#13;<br \/>\n  CEO of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) branch,&#13;<br \/>\n  subject to regulatory approval, Bank of Singapore said in a&#13;<br \/>\n  statement yesterday. Lim is concurrently interim global head of&#13;<br \/>\n  the investment solutions group.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Lim, together with Rickie Chan and Vi Sun Yang, will accelerate&#13;<br \/>\n  the push for UHNW growth, the bank said. Chan is head of private&#13;<br \/>\n  banking, Greater China &amp; North Asia, and CEO, Hong Kong Branch.&#13;<br \/>\n  As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthbriefingasia.com\/article.php\/Bank-Of-Singapore-Names-ASEAN-Private-Banking-Head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n  previously announced<\/a> by BoS, Vi Sun Yang will join Bank of&#13;<br \/>\n  Singapore as head of private banking for the ASEAN region on 29&#13;<br \/>\n  June.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  A media report in late April said that Khanna is set to join&#13;<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthbriefingasia.com\\\/section.php?keywords=EFG%20International\">EFG&#13;<br \/>\n  International<\/a> in Dubai. EFG declined to comment when asked&#13;<br \/>\n  about the matter in May.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  <strong>Other changes<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n  With Lim\u2019s appointment, Annabelle Chow, head of financial&#13;<br \/>\n  intermediaries, will be the global segment lead for the FIM&#13;<br \/>\n  business with responsibility\u00a0for driving the bank\u2019s strategy&#13;<br \/>\n  and proposition for the segment. Chow will report to Yang.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Lim has worked in the private banking sector for three decades.&#13;<br \/>\n  Bank of Singapore said Lim\u2019s accomplishments include shaping its&#13;<br \/>\n  financial intermediaries team into one of the fastest growing&#13;<br \/>\n  segments at the bank. (This week, this news service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthbriefingasia.com\/article.php\/Bank-Of-Singapore-Confirms-Measure-To-Protect-Clients-When-RMs-Depart%C2%A0?id=207926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n  covered<\/a> the bank\u2019s updated policies on relationship&#13;<br \/>\n  managers.)&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Among his other accomplishments\u00a0in the family office and&#13;<br \/>\n  wealth advisory space, he more than doubled revenue from&#13;<br \/>\n  insurance referrals and led strategic initiatives including the&#13;<br \/>\n  Bank of Singapore Family Office Catalyst. Launched in 2025, this&#13;<br \/>\n  offering caters to UHNW individuals seeking to adopt a setup that&#13;<br \/>\n  facilitates the professionalisation of their wealth management,&#13;<br \/>\n  which could eventually evolve to a single-family office.\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Lim joined the lender as global head of products. Prior to that,&#13;<br \/>\n  he spent 25 years at UBS Wealth Management, where he served in&#13;<br \/>\n  senior management roles including Asia-Pacific head of wealth&#13;<br \/>\n  planning and Singapore head of investment products and services.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Chow (pictured below)\u00a0joined in 2016\u00a0to build the&#13;<br \/>\n  firm&#8217;s\u00a0FIMs business with Lim: the size of the FIMs team led&#13;<br \/>\n  by Chow tripled across Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthbriefing.com\/cms\/images\/app\/People\/Annabelle%20Chow.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 200px;\"\/>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  <strong>Annabelle\u00a0Chow<\/strong>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Chow has 20 years of private banking experience, including stops&#13;<br \/>\n  at Barclays Wealth in Asia and Credit Suisse AG where she covered&#13;<br \/>\n  family offices of UHNW clients in Hong Kong, and eventually built&#13;<br \/>\n  up the team to expand Credit Suisse\u2019s presence in the Asia FIMs&#13;<br \/>\n  segment, Bank of Singapore said.\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  In 2025, Bank of Singapore reported that it had exceeded its&#13;<br \/>\n  previously-announced target of $145 billion in assets under&#13;<br \/>\n  management (AuM) set in 2023, growing global AuM by more than 20&#13;<br \/>\n  per cent.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  The bank noted that the Capgemini Research Institute\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthbriefingasia.com\/\/article.php\/High-Net-Worth-Individuals%27-Global-Wealth-Rises-In-2025%3B-Asia-Posts-Strongest-Growth-%E2%80%93-Capgemini?id=207882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n  <em>World Wealth Report 2026<\/em><\/a> showed that the UHNW&#13;<br \/>\n  population expanded 9.4 per cent in 2025. \u201cGiven this backdrop,&#13;<br \/>\n  Bank of Singapore aims for 30 per cent growth in UHNW assets&#13;<br \/>\n  under management (AuM) globally by 2028,\u201d it added.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wealthbriefingasia.com\/article.php\/Bank-Of-Singapore-Names-New-Private-Banking-Head-For-Middle-East%2C-South-Asia-And-International-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new head has been appointed for the private bank&#8221;s operations in the Middle East, South Asia and International business. &#13; Bank of&#13; Singapore has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}