Asian private banking veteran , Urs Brutsch has joined Clariden Bank, where he will lead the private bank's expansion in Asia.
Brutsch has been hired from ABN AMRO Private Banking, whose Asian operations he ran from Singapore. He spent five-and-a-half years with ABN and successfully built the firm's reputation in the private banking arena. Clariden is the independent private bank that resides within the Credit Suisse Group and is thus distinct from Credit Suisse Private Bank. Its push into Asia is timely. The region is seeing the fastest growth globally of any private banking market, and as our survey of family wealth in the September issue of FinanceAsia shows,...