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Standard Chartered Adds Senior Private Markets Figure

Editorial Staff 28 January 2025

Standard Chartered Adds Senior Private Markets Figure

Based in Singapore, the new appointee who comes from Jones Lang Lasalle, has almost two decades' experience in the wealth management industry.

Standard Chartered has appointed former Jones Lang Lasalle senior figure Khoo Kian Jin (pictured) as head of private markets for Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Khoo Kian Jin, who is based in Singapore, reports to Nicholas Cheng, the head of the private markets group for the global private bank, StanChart said in a statement yesterday.

In total, “KJ” brings almost 20 years’ experience in wealth management, with a track record across private banking, family offices and commercial real estate.

Prior to his new post, Khoo was head of private wealth for Asia capital markets at Jones Lang Lasalle. Before that, he was CEO at a single-family office and a senior banker managing ultra-high net worth clients in Southeast Asia and Greater China for more than 10 years.

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