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HK regulator suspends former employee of Julius Baer for seven months

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong has suspended Mr Singh Amit Kishan, a former employee of Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd, for seven months.

The suspension, which will run until 15 May 2025, is for regulatory breaches.

The disciplinary action follows an SFC investigation which found that between 17 December 2018 and 11 February 2019, Singh, a private banker of Julius Baer, misrepresented to his then employer that he had a face-to-face meeting with a client on 10 December 2018 in Hong Kong as part of the required account opening procedure.

He also advised the client through text messaging to make 14 transactions between 21 June 2019 and 20 February 2020 in a manner which created a false appearance of unsolicited trades when that was not the case.

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