Banks & Service Providers

Vikas Arora has been appointed head of corporate bank and relationship transaction management for Malaysia.

The Singaporean Citi veteran has over three decades of experience at the US bank and replaces Tibor Pandi.

Sridhar Srinivasan, a former Accenture managing director, financial services, has joined the Japanese bank in Singapore.

Alvaro Huete moves from Paris to Singapore at the French bank; he will oversee Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam.

The system, which encompasses forecasting tools and a large language model, is available globally, except for mainland China.

Bankers spoke to CT about key trends observed across Apac treasury teams, at Bank of America’s Treasury Leaders Summit in Singapore.

Kalay, the US bank's current head of global payment services, corporate sales EMEA, is relocating to Singapore for the role.

The sustainability linked financing covers greenfield and operational assets across Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, and involved a consortium of 60 banks. The financing comes after Blackstone and CPPIB's acquisition of the group last year.

Surveys show Hong Kong's SMEs facing rising costs, late payments, a tight credit stance from banks, and tariffs, despite an overall economic recovery in the SAR; bad weather has also been an issue this summer.

The record green loan for the data centre, to be built in Singapore, has been supported by a consortium of banks. Crédit Agricole CIB, DBS and ING were the global coordinators and sustainability structuring agents; the loan has an option to convert into a SLL.

Tanar is currently ANZ country head for Germany and will replace Mitchell Mason; the bank sees growth opportunities across markets, financial institutions and DCM.

Shanghai-based Lenny Chu started the role on August 11.