17 February 2026
Alpha Associates has announced that Kurt Geiger, former head of financial institutions and private equity and chairman of the equity committee of the EBRD, will join the Zurich-based private equity fund firm as special adviser and chairman of its advisory board.
The extraordinary general meeting of shareholders and the board of directors of Alfa Bank have elected Johann Jonach as chairman of the board.
Renaissance Capital has taken on Yury Gruzglin as a managing director and head of the debt product group.
The new management board of Parex Banka took office on 5 December 2008. It is chaired by Nils Melngailis, a former executive director of Lattelecom, a leading communications company in the Baltics.
Regina Ovesny-Straka, who has been the CEO of Slovenska sporitelna since 2001, is to become the new CEO of Salzburger Sparkasse, one of the largest savings banks in Austria.
International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is moving London-based corporate partner David Higgins to
Saudi Arabia’s minister of petroleum and mineral resources, Ali Al-Naimi, has appointed Khalid Al-Falih as president and CEO of Saudi Aramco.
Law firm SJ Berwin has recruited a new associate, Puzant Merdinian, who is to work in the London office.
Richard Luddington is to become a vice-chairman in global capital markets (GCM) at UBS focusing on the Central Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) region.
On November 5, Swedbank appointed Michael Wolf to the position of CEO. Swedbank has subsidiaries in
The board of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has hired Paul Koster as its next CEO. Koster succeeds David Knott, who retires from full time employment in December this year, after nearly four years with the DFSA. Knott is widely credited as having established the DFSA as a highly regarded regulator operating to world-class standards.
Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) has appointed Abdulla Al Hamli as its new chief executive officer. Al Hamli, who previously served as chief of operations and information technology at DIB, has worked at the bank for nine years, following 16 in progressively senior positions at leading public and private-sector organisations in Dubai, including more than a decade and a half as director of information systems at the Dubai Ports Authority and Jebel Ali Free Zone.
