Hong Leong Bank’s choice of new chief executive leaves an awkward gap in a key role at Singapore’s UOB.
Kevin Lam, the head of UOB’s digital banking unit TMRW Group Digital, is to succeed Domenic Fuda as chief executive of the Malaysian bank from July 1. Fuda, who spent seven years in the job, is retiring.
That is good news for Hong Leong, but a headache for UOB, which is attempting a multi-year digital transformation of which the TMRW division is the spearhead, at the same time as trying to bed in the acquisition of Citi consumer franchises in four southeast Asian markets, again with digital at its core.
Struggle
It is a vital job, but UOB has struggled to keep key people in it.
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