Chua Hak Bin another prominent casualty of economic slowdown

Singapore

AN ongoing pullback in the regional banking industry has claimed another prominent casualty in Singapore as the weakness of the global economy and a slowdown in China continued to bite.

Well regarded economist Chua Hak Bin, who had been head of Asean economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML), was let go on March 15, sources told The Business Times. He had been at the bank since 2010.