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Vathany Vijayaratna, CEO – Deutsche Bank UK and Ireland |
Deutsche Bank has promoted long-serving executive Vathany Vijayaratna to CEO of its UK and Ireland (UK&I) business. She will report to Fabrizio Campelli, the management board member responsible for Deutsche Bank’s corporate and investment bank and for the UK&I region.
Ms Vijayaratna joined Deutsche Bank in 2002 and was appointed global head of fixed-income currencies structuring in 2018 before moving to head of non-financial risk for its investment bank in 2022. She will oversee the bank’s operations in UK&I across all divisions and will be responsible for further developing its franchise in the region.
Her promotion follows a strategic push by the bank to expand its presence in the UK corporate sector through the acquisition of London-based boutique investment bank Numis in a £410m deal completed in October. The new company, rebranded as Deutsche Numis, will serve more than 170 corporate clients with advisory, brokerage and equity capital markets services.
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Mamoun Alhomssey, chief technology officer – Ajman Bank |
Ajman Bank, a UAE-based Islamic bank, has appointed Mamoun Alhomssey as chief technology officer. He brings more than 25 years of experience to the role, 17 of which were gained at Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, where he served as group chief information officer.
Commenting on the appointment, Mustafa Mohammed Saeed Al Khalfawi, CEO of Ajman Bank, said: “Mr Alhomssey has been responsible for various technology modernisation and innovation programs that have significantly contributed to the growth of the organisations he worked with. We are confident that under his leadership, Ajman Bank will continue to innovate and provide exceptional service to our customers”.
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Liliana Fratini Passi, vice-chair – UN/CEFACT |
Liliana Fratini Passi, current managing director of CBI Benefit Corporation, a consortium company comprising 400 banks and payment service providers that develops digital payments and open finance infrastructure, has been re-elected as vice-chair of United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) for a second term until 2026.
UN/CEFACT is a global intergovernmental organisation operating under the coordination of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. It aims to facilitate national and international transactions by streamlining processes, procedures and information flows, with the goal of growing international trade.
Ms Fratini Passi’s re-election will facilitate the continuation of its previous initiatives, including the recent launch of its “Check-IBAN open finance use case”, aimed at establishing an international standard for verifying the association between IBAN codes and tax codes/VAT numbers, to help combat fraud in international trade procedures.
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Haytham El Maayergi, executive vice-president of global trade bank – Afreximbank |
Cairo-based pan-African development lender Afreximbank has appointed Haytham El Maayergi as executive vice-president of its global trade bank. Mr El Maayergi possesses more than 30 years of banking experience, including 25 years gained in regional and multinational banks such as Citi, Standard Chartered Bank and Société Générale.
In his new role, Mr El Maayergi will head a team overseeing a diverse portfolio of African customers and developing global trade banking products, which includes trade finance, syndications, advisory and capital market services. He will be tasked with identifying new opportunities, managing the trade banking value chain and ensuring compliance with risk guidelines.
