Asia's largest wealth manager UBS has named one of the firms most experienced bankers to a team head role, finews.asia has learned.

finews.asia has learned that with in excess of 21 years at the Swiss bank, Ya Ju Wu has been appointed as country team head, China International Country Team, with immediate effect.

She will report to Marina Lui, regional market manager, China International, and will be based in the UBS Kowloon office, a source familiar with the move told finews.asia.

Wu began her career with UBS in 1996 and  has been instrumental in building the Taiwan International business at the bank, since 2006 she has been desk head on the Taiwan International team.