RBS Coutts, the international private banking arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland, announced yesterday that it has appointed eight new private bankers to its Southeast Asia team.
The bank has hired Bruno Merlino as team leader in Indonesia. Merlino joins from UBS in Singapore where he was an executive director and Indonesia desk head and will start with RBS Coutts on December 1. He joins RBS Coutts with 20 years of banking experience, the last 14 of which he has spent focusing on developing client relationships and leading private banking teams for UBS in Geneva, Zurich, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Syed Al-Idid has joined the bank as a senior private...