Top Standard Chartered banker quits to raise PE fund
Viswanathan Shankar, Standard Chartered's group executive director and CEO for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Americas is leaving the firm to set up his own private equity fund.
Shankar is said to be looking to raise about $1 billion for his first fund, which will launched around September once his gardening leave ends. "I've been toying with the idea because I started the private-equity...
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