Why Relationships Still Matter in the Digital Age of Banking

South China Morning Post - Nov 2, 2026

When Sachil Dagur took charge of Habib Bank Zurich in Hong Kong in 2018, he saw a bank with valuable strengths already in place: a niche in trade finance, deep ties to the trading community and a footprint across markets important to its clients. The opportunity, he believed, was not to reinvent those strengths, but to connect them more effectively and help clients make better use of them. Dagur, CEO of Habib Bank Zurich (Hong Kong), had spent more than two decades at Axis Bank, including senior...

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