ING appoints Uday Sareen as chief executive and head of Wholesale Banking for Asia Pacific

Asia Pacific, 15 October 2024 – ING announced today the appointment of Uday Sareen as chief executive and head of Wholesale Banking for Asia Pacific. In this role, Uday will oversee operations across 11 markets in the region, leveraging his extensive expertise and leadership to drive growth and innovation.

With a banking career spanning three decades across Asia Pacific & Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Uday has a deep understanding of customer needs and a wealth of experience in managing segments and products across geographies, which will help grow the difference in the region for our wholesale banking clients.

Uday joined ING in 2007 in India. Since 2020, he has been the head of Wholesale Banking at ING for the EMEA (Europe, the Middle-East & Africa) region, prior to which he was the country manager for ING in Australia.

Andrew Bester, head of ING Wholesale Banking, commented:

Uday’s extensive experience in wholesale and retail banking, along with his understanding of the Asia Pacific market, will be invaluable as we continue to grow our business in the region, leveraging our global network and sector expertise to create better value for our clients.

Uday holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India in addition to a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Electrical & Electronics & a Master of Science (Hons) Economics from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS Pilani), India.