Jacob Doo is a senior banking professional with 28 years of experience in private banking, fund management, investment banking, FX trading, corporate treasury, and wealth management in the retail space. His strong multi-asset class product background across equities, fixed income, FX, rates, commodities, funds (mutual, hedge and private equity), structured products, derivatives, cross border solutions and corporate financing has helped to enhance the value proposition SC can offer.

His wealth of experience is accumulated from having gone through multiple cycles over the decades from the Asian financial crisis in 1997–98, the Malaysian capital control, the high US rate cycle in early 2000, the accumulator blow-up in 2005 and the Lehman Brothers global financial crisis. During each period, he had established a solid track record of performance in challenging environments, providing the stability in crisis, managing portfolios to generate decent returns and took advantage of market anomalies when it presented itself.

In terms of career accomplishments, he developed the structured products platform in Asia for Bank Julius Baer and established the structured solutions capability in Bank Sarasin. In Standard Chartered Bank, he was managing fixed income (2014–2019), credit products, FX, rates, commodities, and equities in 2014–2015 across 4 business segments in 23 countries. The segments include Private Bank, Priority bank, Personal bank and SME. He also established clear guidelines on the policies globally and helped to stabilize the revenue stream particularly in the FX, rates, and commodity asset classes.

As part of his risk management responsibilities, he dealt with multiple central banks’ audits. During the Lehman Brothers crisis, he was tasked by Bank Julius Baer to manage the exposures across all asset classes and dealt with potential lawsuits. He is currently in the family office space dealing with cross border issues and advising clients on the structural set up of family offices based in Singapore. The expertise extends to dealing with the corporate and individual investment needs of the family offices.

Besides being a banking professional, Jacob was a trainer with Salmon Thrust conducting training on a host of courses that included IBF’s CACS papers and CMFAS modules. He is also the course reviewer on the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) standards for Salmon Thrust.