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Wang Ke, CEO – OCBC Hong Kong |
Singapore-headquartered OCBC Group has named Wang Ke as the new CEO of its Hong Kong operation. He will succeed Ivy Au-Yeung who is due to retire at the end of December.
Mr Wang initially joined OCBC in 2012 as head of IT in China. Over the years, his role expanded to include operations. By 2017, he assumed the position of head of the Pearl River Delta region and, in 2019, he was appointed as the China CEO of OCBC Wing Hang.
Earlier this month, Mr Wang was appointed as OCBC’s head of Greater China, a role he will retain. He will oversee three banking subsidiaries in Hong Kong, mainland China and Macau.
Mr Wang’s dual appointment as CEO of Hong Kong and head of Greater China aims to align with OCBC’s strategy to adopt a “one group” approach. This strategy intends to optimise internal collaboration across the group’s banking, wealth management and insurance divisions, with a view to bolster its growing cross-border aspirations.
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Jamil Choucair, CEO – Standard Chartered Iraq |
Standard Chartered Iraq has named Jamil Choucair as its new CEO. Mr Choucair’s banking career in the Middle East spans almost 20 years, eight of which he spent in Iraq as the general manager and country head of Audi Bank Iraq.
Prior to that, he served as the head of corporate banking at Audi Bank and held various leadership positions at institutions such as Blom Bank, Bank of Syria and Overseas, Saudi Lebanese Bank and Banque Libano-Française.
Standard Chartered has been conducting business in Iraq since 2013. It offers a range of services in corporate and institutional banking.
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Zahra Abdulamir Saied, acting chief risk officer – Oman Arab Bank |
Oman Arab Bank (OAB) has promoted its head of credit review, Zahra Abdulamir Saied, to acting chief risk officer. She will begin her new role in February next year and succeed current chief risk officer Amith Singh.
Ms Saied began her career in 2010 within HSBC’s risk management division and in 2017 became the first Omani woman to be certified in financial risk management by the Global Association of Risk Professionals. Prior to joining OAB, she served as head of risk analytics at Bank Dhofar.
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HSBC appoints Vinay Mendonca as the CEO of its new embedded finance fintech |
HSBC has appointed Vinay Mendonca as CEO of its recently announced joint venture with fintech Tradeshift, a cloud-based supply chain payments platform. The business will launch in the first half of 2024 to develop and commercialise embedded finance solutions.
Mr Mendonca is currently chief growth officer for HSBC’s global trade and receivables finance division. He joined HSBC in 2006 and has held product, transformation and strategy leadership roles in India, Hong Kong and the UK.
The new venture will develop technology which will be used by HSBC to embed its transaction banking solutions into Tradeshift and other e-commerce and marketplace venues.
