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StanChart hires HSBC's Cooper to run CIB unit

CEO Bill Winters lures emerging markets veteran to oversee new strategy in corporate and institutional banking

StanChart hires HSBC's Cooper to run CIB unit

A little over a month after revealing his plans for Standard Chartered’s investment banking business, new chief executive Bill Winters has lured a top HSBC banker with years of emerging markets experience to run the division.

Simon Cooper will join Standard Chartered as chief executive of corporate and institutional banking in April 2016, pending regulatory approval, the bank said in a December 17 statement.

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