Appointments

Concejo takes Societe Generale FIG helm

Societe Generale CIB has appointed Jose Enrique Concejo as global head of its financial institution group (FIG), and the new man in charge tells EMEA Finance that widespread optimism is finally making a return to the banking sector. 

Max Chuard drives forward with skin in the game

Temenos 20-year veteran sees plenty of opportunity to catch a European fintech unicorn or more in the next five years. Chuard joins Aperture Capital’s investment committee where he is already a strategic investor via his own family office.

EBRD hires its first head of Iraq

Catarina Bjorlin Hansen will lead the bank’s activities as it starts investing in Iraq. A US$100mn trade finance facility extended to the National Bank of Iraq last December kicks off the bank’s Iraq lending.