German lender Deutsche Bank has promoted from within to fill the vacant role of North Asia wealth management head.

Following the departure of Ravi Raju, who left to join rival UBS Wealth Management, the bank promoted Lok Yim to take over the role of Asia Pacific Wealth Management Head.

Deutsche has now named Kansas Chan as head of North Asia wealth management, it is believed she will take up the position on 5 December 2016 and report into Lok Yim.

Chan who possesses over 20 years of industry experience joined Deutsche's Wealth Management arm in 2007 as head of fixed income. Since 2013 she has been the head of capital markets Asia Pacific.

Prior to joining Deutsche she worked with U.S. bank Citi and with Singapore's DBS.