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Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:00   Chad Bray

Standard Chartered to hire 400 staff in Hong Kong to tap growing demand for wealth management service

Standard Chartered plans to hire about 400 people in its retail banking and wealth management businesses in Hong Kong this year and transform its branch network as it seeks to tap greater demand from affluent customers for wealth planning.The bank, one of three currency-issuing lenders in the city, plans to invest HK$200 million (US$26 million) over the next three years to reshape its 70 branches in the city, according to Lay Choo Ong, Standard Chartered’s head of consumer, private and business…

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