Bank ABC Appoints Amr El Nokaly As Group Head of Corporates

Press release

Published October 1st, 2018 - 05:43 GMT

Bank ABC is a leading player in the region’s banking industry and provides innovative wholesale financial products and services.

Bank ABC has recently appointed Amr El Nokaly as Group Head of Corporates at the Bank’s Headquarters in Bahrain.

Reporting to Jonathan Robinson, Group Head of Wholesale Banking, Amr will be responsible for overseeing Group Corporate Coverage and driving the significant growth of this strategic client segment envisaged across the Bank’s global network.

Amr joins Bank ABC from Mashreq Bank in Dubai, where he served as Head of Corporate Banking. He has held a number of senior positions in the bank’s Investment Banking Group since 2004. Prior to that, he worked with Citibank in Egypt as Senior Relationship Manager-Global Corporate and Investment Bank.

Commenting on this appointment, Jonathan said: "I am delighted that Amr has joined our expanding Wholesale Banking team. He is a seasoned banker with proven experience in driving corporate client business – both expanding the base and deepening wallet. His appointment will accelerate the growth of our global wholesale banking business and further improve our ability to provide tailored financial services to corporations in the region and globally.”

For his part, Amr said: " I am look forward to working with the wholesale banking team at Bank ABC, one of the key players in MENA. Our mission will be to further enhance the Bank’s wholesale banking franchise in the region, utilising its international network of offices in around 15 countries around the world."

Amr holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Helwan University, Egypt. He has completed the Program of Investment Appraisal, Risk Analysis and Project Finance at Harvard Business School.

Bank ABC is a leading player in the region’s banking industry and provides innovative wholesale financial products and services that include corporate banking, trade finance, project and structured finance, syndications, treasury and financial markets products and Islamic banking. It also provides retail-banking services through its network of retail banks in Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria.

Background Information

Bank ABC

Bank ABC (incorporated as Arab Banking Corporation B.S.C) is an international bank headquartered in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. Our network spreads across five continents, covering countries in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Bank ABC, founded in 1980, is listed on the Bahrain Bourse and our major shareholders are the Central Bank of Libya and Kuwait Investment Authority.

Bank ABC is a leading provider of Trade Finance, Treasury, Project & Structured Finance, Syndications, Corporate & Institutional Banking as well as Islamic Banking services. We are also expanding our retail banking network in the MENA region.

Bank ABC is licensed as a conventional wholesale bank by the Central Bank of Bahrain.