Barclays Wealth poaches Srinivas Siripurapu from UBS

Barclays Wealth, the wealth management division of Barclays, has hired Srinivas Srini Siripurapu from UBS to head Southeast Asia and South Asia for the UK-based bank. The new hire will also fill the position of market manager, South Asia community. Barclays Wealth has also hired Fawaz Baba in the Middle East.

Siripurapu will join Barclays Wealth in November 2009 as a managing director, and will continue to be based in Singapore. He will bring with him a team of nine from UBS, said sources.

As head of Southeast Asia and South Asia, Siripurapu is responsible for developing the business and managing the Asia-based private banking teams covering these two...