Credit Suisse strengthens its coverage of the non-resident India market with the hire of a former Julius Baer banker, finews.asia has learned.

Neeraj Arora joins Credit Suisse as director, relationship manager, for the non-resident India (NRI) market, according to an internal memo seen by finews.asia.

Based in Singapore, Arora reports to managing director and NRI market team leader Bikram Sen.

Arora has over 21 years of wealth management experience, most recently at Julius Baer where he spent more than two years as a director of private banking, serving high net worth clients based in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Previously, he also worked at Citibank and Standard Chartered in Hong Kong, Singapore and India.

A spokesperson for the bank confirmed the contents of the memo.