March saw a number of high-profile appointments across financial services, with noteworthy additions to ANZ, Standard Chartered, and the Bank of New Zealand.

AUSTRALIA

NAB has appointed Mike Baird to the position of Chief Customer Officer, Corporate and Institutional Banking, and Patrick Wright to the position of Chief Technology and Operations Officer

The Templeton Global Growth Fund has appointed Chris Freeman to the position of Chair

Countplus has appointed Matthew Rowe to the position of Chief Executive Officer

The Actuaries Institute has appointed Jenny Lyon to the position of President

The Association of Financial Advisers has appointed Philip Kewin to the position of Chief Executive Officer

ANZ has appointed Kathryn Bain to the position of Group Executive, Talent and Culture

Australian Unity Trustees has appointed Caroline Whitby to the position of National Manager, Philanthropy

Nikko Asset Management has appointed Hendrie Koster to the position of Head of Product and Strategy

IOOF has appointed Martin Breckon to the position of New Head of Technical Services

Array Technologies has appointed Alan Brown to the position of General Manager, Sydney

NEW ZEALAND

ASB has appointed Simon Tong to the position of Executive General Manager Technology, Innovation and Payments.

ServiceNow has appointed Hamish Miles to the position of New Zealand Country Manager

Tauranga City Council has appointed Allan Lightbourne to the position of Chief Digital Officer

Primary ITO has appointed Para Ganesan to the position of General Manager, Technology and Innovation

Visa has appointed Jacqueline Phillips to the position of Senior Director and Head of Brand Marketing, New Zealand & Australia

ASIA & ASIA-PACIFIC

Standard Chartered Bank Qatar has appointed Abdulla Abdulrazaq Bukhowa to the position of Chief Executive Officer

DBS Bank has appointed Sandeep Lau to the position of Group Head of Digital Bank

NAB has appointed Leslie Raymond to the position of Head of People, Asia

Bank of East Asia has appointed Delman Lee to the position of Independent Non-Executive Director

J.Sadra Sarasin Group has appointed Vinay Gandhi to the position of Chief Executive Asia

UBS Hong Kong has appointed Vikesh Kotecha to the position of Head of Equity Derivatives, and Hirofumi Takaku to the position of Head of Equity Derivatives Structured Sales, Asia-Pacific

ANZ has appointed Jennifer Kusuma to the position of Senior Asia Rates Strategist

HSBC has appointed Hossein Zaimi to the position of Global Head of Equities (Hong Kong base)

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has appointed Stefan Gannon to lead the central bank’s resolution office

JP Morgan Private Bank has appointed Kwang Kam Shing to the position of Asia Chief Executive