{"id":67676,"date":"2026-05-18T21:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/67676\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:29:26","slug":"ubs-loses-middle-east-wealth-bankers-it-hired-two-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/67676\/","title":{"rendered":"UBS Loses Middle East Wealth Bankers It Hired Two Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/UBSG:SW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">UBS Group AG<\/a> has lost several senior wealth management bankers in the Middle East less than two years after hiring them, indicating the intense level of competition for talent in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The departures include several bankers that UBS recruited from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/HSBA:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">HSBC Holdings Plc<\/a> in 2024, such as Rana Al Emam and Ali Khunji, people familiar with the matter said. The bank had hired Al Emam to grow its business in Abu Dhabi, and Khunji to run its wealth unit in Bahrain and the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UBS Group AG has lost several senior wealth management bankers in the Middle East less than two years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[129],"tags":[5352,36648,14073,36649,167,29673,10622,239,6793,223,9374,1197,245],"class_list":["post-67676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ubs","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-bahrain","tag-banco-santander-sa","tag-deutsche-bank-ag-registered","tag-finance","tag-hsbc-holdings-plc","tag-industries","tag-middle-east","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-ubs","tag-ubs-group-ag-reg","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-wealth-management"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116597710228027623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}