People are what make private banking and wealth management. PBI therefore gives out two very special people awards every year: The Rising Star for Asia-Pacific and Outstanding Young Private Bankers. Here are the winners.

Rising Star for Asia-Pacific

Echo Bi, DBS Bank

Echo Bi, executive director of Private Banking – Consumer Banking Group – Wealth Management

PBI recognised Echo Bi’s talent two years ago when we presented her with an ‘Outstanding Young Private Banker’ award.

Since then, in her role as a senior private bank relationship manager at DBS, Bi has developed a truly pan-Asian career, managing UHNWI clients in Mainland China, portfolios in Taiwan and family offices in Singapore.

Outstanding Young Private Banker

Nicknamed the “30 under 30 for private banking” the award for Outstanding Young Private Banker always sees the highest number of entries of any of our categories.

These are also some of the most important of Private Banker International’s entire award series. Private banking is in an era of change, where wealth is changing hands from one generation to the next with increasing speed while digital technologies embraced by the younger generation are forcing change at the core of every organisation.

These are individuals that will go on to reshape private banking for our modern world:

Aditya Narsaria, DBS Bank

Allen He, Maybank Private

Andy Yiu, DBS Bank

April Yixiong Xiang, DBS Bank

Dominic Jianzhi Su, Maybank Private

Jake Ngor, Maybank Private

Jason Leong, Maybank Private

Jessica Qi Fu, DBS Bank

Lawrence Wong, DBS Bank

Nicholas Xu, DBS Bank

Serene Ang, DBS Bank

Stamford Loh, DBS Bank

Teguh Riswono, Maybank Private

Zhang Ao, DBS Bank

August Hatecke, UBS

Outstanding young private banker award