KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 ― OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Bhd and OCBC Al-Amin Bank Bhd have appointed veteran banker Tan Ngiap Joo as the new chairman, effective March 30, 2018.

In a statement today, OCBC said he has taken over from Datuk Ooi Sang Kuang, who maintained his post as Chairman of the parent company, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd (OCBC Ltd), based in Singapore.

It also said Tan was a long-serving former senior executive of OCBC Ltd in Singapore prior to his retirement in December 2007. ― Bernama