BANGKOK, July 20 -- Xinhua/ PRNewswire/ AsiaNet
ING today announced the appointment of Stephen Briones as Country Head of
Thailand. He reports to John Howland-Jackson, Head of Wholesale Relationship
Management, Asia and David Hudson, CEO of ING Bank, Asia.
Mr Briones will be responsible for managing and developing ING's Wholesale
Banking client coverage activities and will ensure that ING's client base in
Thailand has easy access to ING's wide-range of advisory and debt-financing
expertise.
ING has a long standing franchise in Thailand offering a variety of
value-added activities including Structured Finance, Debt Capital Markets,
Securitisation, Mergers & Acquisition Advisory, Corporate Finance, Financial
Engineering, International Trade and Export Finance and General Lending.
Mr. Briones brings 14 years of investment banking and relationship
management experience, of which ten years has been spent working with clients
in Asia. He joins ING from Devonshire Capital Group, where from 2002 he led
the origination and execution of transactions throughout South East Asia and
India and was part of a team who helped Devonshire establish an investment
banking joint venture with Kiatnakin Finance Group In Thailand. Prior to this
Mr Briones worked as a consultant to Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds in
Thailand and was CFO of Web Advisory Company, a Bangkok-based Internet advisory
group. Mr. Briones was also a First Vice-President in Corporate Finance at
Jardine Fleming and between 1995 and 1998 worked in Equity Research and
Corporate Finance at ING Barings.
John Howland-Jackson, Head of Wholesale Relationship Management stated,
"This appointment points to ING's intent to develop a deep and effective
network of client relationship managers across Asia. Our strategy is to bring
ING's core expertise of debt-financing and advisory products and services to
our most important clients and Mr. Briones brings a huge amount of experience
to the role."
ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking,
insurance and asset management to over 60 million private, corporate and
institutional clients in 50 countries. With a diverse workforce of
approximately 112,000 people, ING comprises a broad spectrum of prominent
companies that increasingly serve their clients under the ING brand.
ING Bank, a division of ING Group, conducts a wide range of international
financial services including sales, trading and distribution of debt market
products, research, treasury, foreign exchange, money markets and derivatives.
It also offers corporate finance, M&A advisory, origination of debt capital
markets products, private banking services, securitisation and corporate and
structured lending. Additionally, ING has unique strengths in cash management,
international payments, wholesale insurance and employee benefits products.
Press enquiries:
ING Bank N.V., Hong Kong
Sheel Kohli, +852 2913 8768
[email protected]
Karen Williams, +852 2913 8536
[email protected]
SOURCE: ING
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