OCBC Bank has appointed Vincent Choo Nyen Fui as executive vice-president and chief risk officer with effect from August 1 2014. He will take over from Gilbert Kohnke, who has helmed the group risk management division since September 2005 and will remain with the bank until September 30 2014 to ensure a smooth transition.

Choo joins OCBC Bank from Deutsche Bank where his last appointment was managing director and chief risk officer for Asia-Pacific. In his 20 years at Deutsche Bank, he served in a number of senior roles including head of market risk management for Asia-Pacific, with additional responsibilities for traded credit products, and head of new product approval for Asia. He was also a non-independent, non-executive director of DB Malaysia and a director of Huaxia Bank, a publicly listed bank in China.

Choo holds a master of arts in economics from the University of Akron.