rbs coutts

RBC picks Barend Janssens to head emerging markets WM

The bank lists snatching market share and building corporate relationships in Asia as priorities for 2011. Meanwhile, RBS Coutts names a new head of NRI and South Asia business based in Dubai.

January 31, 2011

RBS Coutts continues to hire in the region

RBS Coutts, the private banking arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland, hires eight more bankers in Southeast Asia.

October 06, 2010

Esther Heer rejoins Hanspeter Brunner at BSI

The RBS Coutts veteran becomes the next to depart the UK firm for the Swiss private bank, which has also hired Ciro Ahmad as chief operating officer.

August 03, 2010

RBS Coutts appoints new market head for South Asia

Ranjit Khanna becomes the market head for non-resident Indians and South Asia at the Royal Bank of Scotland's international private banking arm.

May 23, 2010

Esther Heer leaves RBS Coutts

Ignatius KK (Iggy) Chong replaces Heer as the new head of private banking for North Asia at RBS Coutts.

May 11, 2010

Asia headcount grows fivefold at BSI

The Swiss private bank has been hiring feverishly in the region, but may find it harder to attract talent down the road.

March 09, 2010

Paul Davies succeeds Sriram at RBS Coutts

The overseer of RBS Coutts's integration with ABN Amro Private Banking in India will now run the South Asia business.

October 22, 2009

Seventy employees depart RBS Coutts Singapore

Of the 70 staff members who have departed RBS Coutts in the past month, approximately 20 were bankers.

October 13, 2009

Private bank woos women, probably not feminists

RBS Coutts launches a women-specific private banking initiative, noting that women "wish to be treated like a man but spoken to like a woman".

April 23, 2009

RBS Coutts appoints new market head

The new role for Mark Brider underscores the growing significance of Malaysia and Singapore to RBS Coutts.

June 18, 2008