05/06/2020
SouthBridge Group appoints Dr. Frannie Léautier as Senior Partner
Dr. Léautier graduated from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) with both a Masters of Science in Transportation and a PhD in Infrastructure Systems.
Executive Moves
05/05/2020
SA Reit appoints Solomon as inaugural CEO
She also served on national and regional councils of the South African Property Owners Association, while she was also a chairperson of the Women’s Property Network and a member of the South African Council of Shopping Centres’ Congress Commit
05/05/2020
SouthBridge Group appoints senior partner
She also led the Asset Management business of TDB, including the recent launch of a unique product for trade finance in Africa.
05/05/2020
Citi appoints markets head for CEEMEA
Richard Aby takes on the newly-created role as Citi looks to grow its markets and securities services division in the CEEMEA region.
04/29/2020
Auditing watchdog appoints former FirstRand executive as new CEO
The IRBA board said John, who also served as the chief audit executive of FirstRand in the past, has the necessary skill and experience to lead the regulator.
04/29/2020
Tymebank appoints new independent non-executive director to the TymeBank Board
She has a Bachelor of Business Science degree (cum laude) in Actuarial Science and Finance, and also a Postgraduate Diploma in Actuarial Science, both from the University of Cape Town.
04/29/2020
Auditing watchdog appoints former FirstRand executive as new CEO
The regulator is yet to finalise its disciplinary hearing on Deloitte's audit work at African Bank before its near collapse in 2014, or ACT Audit Solutions' work at the failed Sharemax scheme which collapsed ten years ago.
04/28/2020
Africa Finance Corporation Appoints New Chairman and Announces Changes to Its Board
Prior to this, he was an Alternate Executive Director in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC, USA.
04/27/2020
Northern Trust names EMEA CTO
She holds a bachelor’s degree in Humanities from Greenwich University, and an MBA from London South Bank University.
04/27/2020
Africa Finance Corporation Appoints New Chairman and Announces Changes to its Board and Senior Management
A distinguished economist who also currently serves as Deputy Governor (Economic Policy) of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obiora brings 19 years of banking and financial services experience.
04/24/2020
Danakali adds value to board with two directors from Africa Finance Corporation
AFC president and CEO Samaila D Zubairu and senior director for Investment Operations & Execution Taiwo Adeniji are new non-executive directors.
04/23/2020
BACB brings in new associate director for Anglophone Africa
The hire follows last month’s appointment of Michael Rolfe as BACB’s head of commodity finance.
04/23/2020
Apifiny Adds Arthur Wiseberg as Head of Institutional Sales, Europe Middle East and Africa, Bringing Experience from Huobi, Blackrock, and Barclays
Based in London, Mr. Wiseberg comes to Apifiny after serving as head of CIS Institutional Sales at the major crypto trading platform Huobi Global.
04/21/2020
Goldman poaches Bank of America's Fortunati to boost industrials ranks: sources
The number of deals also fell 20% year-on-year and last week, for the first time of any week since September 2004, there were no merger and acquisition deals worth more than $1 billion announced worldwide.
04/20/2020
UBA UK carves out new FI relationship manager role
UBA UK is the London-headquartered subsidiary of the pan-African banking group UBA, and was formally launched in Q1 2019.
04/16/2020
Deloitte Appoints Daniel Kwadwo Owusu As New Country Managing Partner
In his role as the Audit & Assurance leader in Ghana, Daniel has overseen the business strategy and transformation of the line of service within the practice.
04/14/2020
African Development Bank appoints Pepin Vougo in new position
He benefits from both private sector and MDB experience.
04/14/2020
HSBC Private Banking appoints UHNW head for EMEA and US
She oversaw the EMEA family office business and the Corporate Finance Advisory business for Wealth Management.
04/13/2020
Former Credit Suisse head to act as envoy for African Union's bid for virus support
Tidjane Thiam was name alongside other representatives such as Old Mutual chairman Trevor Manuel and Nigeria's former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
04/12/2020
Zimbabwean Rights Lawyer Lands Top IMF Post
She said the advisory group is compose of “eminent individuals with high-level policy, market, and private sector experience”.