French banking group BNP Paribas has strengthened its wealth management division with multiple senior hires. These include appointment of Pierre Vrielinck as the new CEO of Asia Pacific, replacing Mignonne Cheng. Vrielinck has been working at BNP Paribas since 1998, previously holding various senior roles at the firm such as COO of BNP Paribas Switzerland,…
UBS customers won’t have to sign bank documents any longer. Switzerland’s biggest bank is introducing the digital signature UBS henceforth will allow its clients to sign legally binding documents electronically. Contracts in online banking will require the digital signature only, according to a report today by «Computerworld», which cited Andreas Kubli, head of multichannel management…
Swiss private bank EFG International has appointed Franco Polloni as head of Central Switzerland, Ticino and Italy region and a member of the executive committee. He will replace Renato Santi, who will leave the firm after the integration of BSI’s Swiss business into EFG, expected to take place in the course of April 2017. Polloni has…
