SG Private Banking, part of Société Générale, has hired a team of three from rival French bank BNP Paribas to handle ultra high net worth accounts in Greece.

The team is led by Miltos Karlos, who joined BNP in Greece in 1984 on the operations side and became head of private banking in 1995. He was appointed deputy chief executive of BNP Paribas Private Bank in Athens earlier this year.