Standard Chartered makes senior management changes in Singapore

STANDARD Chartered has made some senior management changes in Singapore, said the bank on Friday.

These include appointing Andrew Chia as head of retail banking in Singapore; Vanessa Leung as head of commercial banking in Singapore; and Goh Beng Kim as head of transaction banking in Singapore.

All three appointments will take effect no later than Nov 1.

Mr Chia is presently the global head of managed investments, group wealth management, and prior to that was head of retail clients, Standard Chartered Bank (Taiwan) Limited, until June 2015. He joined the bank in October 2010 as regional head of wealth management for Singapore and South-east Asia.

Ms Leung currently heads up the regional coverage team in lending and portfolio management, a global function based in Singapore. Prior to 2007, Vanessa spent eight years with the Singapore business in senior roles managing credit and as head of local corporates from 2004 to 2005. She joined Standard Chartered in 1995.

Mr Goh moves from his position as head, product management, transaction banking, Asean. He joined the bank in 2009, where he initially performed the same role for Singapore before taking on the regional position in 2012.