Valentin Garger, managing director and regional head of financial institutions APAC (ex-Japan), corporate banking, arrives in Dhaka today on a two-day visit.
He is scheduled to meet senior Citi officials, key clients, and review the bank’s potential for further business growth in Bangladesh, says a press release yesterday.
Based in Hong Kong, Garger is a senior credit officer and responsible for business strategy, coverage and performance of the portfolio as well as the capital and credit deployed in Financial Institutions Group (FIG). He is also a member of the Corporate Banking Operating Committee and the Global FIG Capital Committee.
He has expertise in topics such as capital management, treasury/ liquidity, debt capital markets, transaction services, markets trading as well as portfolio optimisation.
He joined Citi in Vienna, Austria in 1990 where he worked in various functions, which included credit/risk management, operations, relationship manager for Corporate and Financial Institution clients as well as Corporate Bank Head before moving to Belgium.