Standard Chartered Private Bank has expanded its team in Southeast Asia with two hires from UOB Private Bank.

The new hires are Kapil Poply and Guarav Gupta. Poply will serve as the managing director and senior client partner for the global South Asia community team (GSAC) at Standard Chartered.

Gupta will serve as an executive director and relationship manager for GSAC.

In their new roles, the duo will report to managing director and market head for GSAC Ravi Ramakrishnan and operate out of Singapore.

Poply was the senior team head at UOB Private Bank, with responsibility for spearheading a team covering Southeast Asia and the Middle East and Africa region.

He has largely focused on NRIs in his career.

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His two-decade-long financial career includes senior banker roles in Singapore and India at ANZ, ING, UBS and Citi.

Gupta most recently was a senior client adviser at UOB Private Bank.

In his 15-year career in the banking industry, he also had stints ANZ, HSBC as well as ING.

Standard Chartered Private Bank recently also appointed Adeline Lai as an executive director.

Lai, who formerly worked at HSBC, will focus on Southeast Asia clients in the new role.

Her financial career spans around 30 years. She previously also worked at DBS, UBS and Citi.

Meanwhile, in a key development, Singapore’s central bank recently enabled Standard Chartered Bank Singapore to run more places of business as a Significantly Rooted Foreign Bank (SRFB).