Sarasin's Enid Yip targets Asia RMs, Shanghai rep office

Bank Sarasin plans to hire a handful of relationship managers and back-office staff for North and Southeast Asia by the end of the first quarter next year, its regional chief Enid Yip revealed yesterday. She also suggested the bank’s biggest challenge for 2011 would be establishing a representative office in Shanghai. Yip estimates that the firm will submit its application by the middle of next year (making a January report that its Shanghai rep office was planned for the third quarte…