UBS has rehired banker Steven Sun from Standard Chartered as chairman of its Financial Institutions Group in Asia, according to people familiar with the matter.
Sun will report to David Chin, co-head of UBS’s investment banking division in the region.
Sun has been at StanChart since October 2012 as head of its North Asia Financial Institutions Strategic Coverage group, where he helped deepen the British bank’s relationship with financial institution clients.
Before that brief stint, Sun was at Barclays between 2009 and 2011, where he helped build the bank’s team of advisors for financial institutions, known in the industry as a FIG...