Standard Chartered Private Bank has appointed Kapil Poply as managing director and senior client partner for the Global South Asia Community (GSAC). Poply has 20 years of banking experience, most recently as senior team head at UOB Private Bank, where he led a team covering Southeast Asia and the Middle East and Africa region. He has been successfully building relationships with the ultra high net worth/high net worth segment, with a focus on NRI, and previously held senior banker positions in Singapore and India with ANZ, ING, UBS and Citi.

Meanwhile, Gaurav Gupta has been named executive director and relationship manager for GSAC. Gupta has over 15 years’ experience managing UHNW individuals who are largely NRI across the Middle East and SEA markets. He was most recently a senior client adviser at UOB Private Bank and was with ANZ before that. Prior to moving to Singapore, Gupta worked with HSBC and ING in India.

Both Popli and Gupta, based in Singapore, will report to Ravi Ramakrishnan, managing director and and market head for GSAC at Standard Chartered Private Bank.