{"id":69981,"date":"2016-05-17T01:33:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T23:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/ecobank-group-appoints-amin-manekia-as-group-exec-corporate-investment-banking\/"},"modified":"2016-05-17T01:33:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T23:33:25","slug":"ecobank-group-appoints-amin-manekia-as-group-exec-corporate-investment-banking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ecobank-group-appoints-amin-manekia-as-group-exec-corporate-investment-banking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecobank Group Appoints Amin Manekia as Group Exec, Corporate & Investment Banking"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n LOME, Togo, May 16, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ —
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Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) (www.Ecobank.com), parent company of the Ecobank Group, today announced the appointment of Mr Amin Manekia as Group Executive of its Corporate Investment Banking business. Mr Manekia steps into the position vacated in late 2015 by Mr Charles Ki\u00e9, who moved to become Managing Director of Ecobank Nigeria.<\/p>\n

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A national of Pakistan, Amin Manekia joins Ecobank with 28 years of international corporate banking experience. It includes an excellent grounding in transaction banking, commercial banking, credit risk and general management. His career spans various business and regional leadership roles across different parts of the world, notably\u00a0 the United States, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n

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Mr Manekia was most recently with Citigroup, where he spent 25 years of his career. He joined Citigroup directly from university in the United States in\u00a01988, moving to South Africa earlier this year as Managing Director and Africa Head for Citi Securities Banking.\u00a0In this role, he successfully led Citibank\u2019s Institutional Clients business.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Before his move to South Africa, Mr Manekia spent two transit years at the Samba Financial Group in Saudi Arabia. There, he was the executive responsible for rebuilding the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia\u2019s corporate banking portfolio following the financial crisis. Prior to this, he held various positions with Citibank in different\u00a0 businesses and regions. These included his Nairobi-based role as Managing Director Banking Head for East and Southern Africa, with business management responsibilities for corporate banking for that region. In 2007, he was the Commercial Banking Head across Citibank\u2019s Africa platform.<\/p>\n

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As Citibank Country Head for Bulgaria from 2004 to 2007, Mr Manekia successfully led the execution and development of a transformation strategy, which he achieved by quadrupling the bank\u2019s business revenue base within his three-year tenure. In 1993, he relocated from New York to Pakistan, where he worked on\u00a0 the origination side of the business.\u00a0During his six-year tenure in Pakistan, he held a series of corporate banking roles in Karachi and Lahore.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mr Manekia\u2019s appointment as Group Executive of Ecobank\u2019s Corporate and Investment Banking business takes effect from 4 July 2016. He will report directly to the Ecobank Group CEO and be responsible for the following business lines: Corporate Banking Group; Transaction Service Group; Investment Banking Group; Fixed Income, Currencies Commodities (Treasury); and Securities, Wealth and Asset Management.<\/p>\n

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Amin Manekia holds a degree in Business Administration and Finance from Boston University School of Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOME, Togo, May 16, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ — Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) (www.Ecobank.com), parent company of the Ecobank Group, today announced the appointment of Mr Amin Manekia as Group Executive of its Corporate Investment Banking business. Mr Manekia steps into the position vacated in late 2015 by Mr Charles Ki\u00e9, who moved to become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-69981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}