12/18/2018
Former Deloitte South Africa consultant appointed Chief Auditor at PCAOB
She has remained at Deloitte ever since.
Executive Moves
12/17/2018
Access Bank appoints new Managing Director
Mr. Beecham also thanked Mr. Njoku for his tenure as Managing Director.
12/13/2018
Ecobank, the Pan African Bank, appoints MFS Africa Ltd as Digital payment partner
Ecobank operates in 33 African countries, serving over twenty million customers.
12/13/2018
Senior departure at Friends Provident International
Chief marketing officer for Middle East and Africa to exit after five years
12/12/2018
Ecobank, the Pan African Bank, appoints MFS Africa Ltd as Digital payment partner
The service is both domestic and crossborder intra-Africa transfers leveraging Rapidtransfer, a proprietary instant remittance product of Ecobank.
12/11/2018
Qatar National Bank signs Neymar as exclusive Global Brand Ambassador
The agreement grants QNB all exclusive marketing rights of Neymar Jr as a Brand Ambassador of all the Group’ s marketing campaigns
12/07/2018
HSBC's Mark Tucker appointed chair of Discovery
He will be succeeded by former AIA boss and chair of major European bank HSBC Mark Tucker, with effect from March 1.
12/05/2018
Boxlight Announces New Head of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa
Matt is a highly respected and accomplished individual within the industry,” says Managing Director of Boxlight EMEA, Andy Pennington.
12/02/2018
From beauty queen to kick-ass executive, meet Standard Bank Wealth SA's new boss
We truly live in exciting times! Standard Bank has just announced the appointment of Peggy-Sue Khumalo as the new Chief Executive for its Wealth South Africa division
11/30/2018
Standard Bank appoints first black woman to head up its wealth unit
At a group level, Standard Bank appointed Lungisa Fuzile as the head for SA operations in December last year.
11/29/2018
Bain appoints new leaders for Europe and MENA private equity practice
A Harvard Business graduate and eight-year former BCG consultant in the UK, Elton has been with Bain for nearly two decades, appointed to lead the firm’s EMEA private equity practice in 2005.
11/28/2018
KPMG SA picks outsider as CEO after scandals
Ignatius Sehoole is currently the deputy CE of PwC’s domestic unit.
11/27/2018
Sameera here with Standard Bank
On moving to the Isle of Man, Sameera said: ‘South Africa will always be home but we did want to experience life in another country.
11/26/2018
South African state pension fund says CEO resigns
In 2017, Matjila was cleared of wrongdoing by an internal audit committee that looked into misconduct allegations.
11/26/2018
Barclays Private Bank appoints Head of Investments for EMEA
With over 20 years’ experience in capital markets, asset and wealth management business development and portfolio construction for large asset owner
11/23/2018
UBA bank boss departs under cloud of bad loans
Mr Mwige was the first Kenyan to head the bank when he was appointed in August 2014.
11/23/2018
Libyan wealth fund to hire auditors in push to unfreeze assets
Libya’s economy has collapsed, and the fund could eventually be an important source of finance for the war-torn country.
11/23/2018
Standard Bank’s Ben Kruger announces retirement
He will remain a non-executive director of the bank’s Nigerian and UK partnerships with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
11/21/2018
Morgan Stanley names new Europe head of private equity banking
Massimiliano Ruggieri, Morgan Stanley’s head of investment banking for Italy, has been promoted to run financial sponsors for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the bank confirmed.
11/20/2018
KCB loses 861 workers in banking’s year of turmoil
KCB hired 144 new employees, or less than a fifth of the number that left, reducing the bank’s total headcount to 6,483 -- the lowest in four years.