Stanadrd Chartered Bank Appoints New Vice Chairman To Lead Corporate Finance, Americas

Standard Chartered Bank appoints of Zubaid Ahmad as Vice Chairman, Head of Corporate Finance, Americas, based in New York. This newly created position highlights the Bank's growing focus on the cross border corporate finance opportunities presented by its increasingly global

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Standard Chartered Bank appoints of Zubaid Ahmad as Vice Chairman, Head of Corporate Finance, Americas, based in New York. This newly created position highlights the Bank’s growing focus on the cross-border corporate finance opportunities presented by its increasingly global client base, in line with the greater investment flows between the Americas and Standard Chartered’ s core markets of Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Zubaid brings 25 years of global financial services industry experience to Standard Chartered. He joins Standard Chartered from JPMorgan, where he was most recently Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Americas Investment Banking. Previously, he served as Vice Chairman of the Financial Sponsor Group, and was responsible for the firm’s relationships with a number of private equity firms, both domestically and internationally.

Prior to JPMorgan, Zubaid was a Managing Director in the Global Corporate Finance Group of Credit Suisse, where he worked extensively with clients in the emerging markets, and in particular with a number of metals and mining conglomerates based in Latin America. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BSBA from Georgetown University.

“I am delighted to welcome someone of Zubaid’s caliber and experience to our senior management team,” says Mike Rees, head of Wholesale banking for Standard Chartered. “We have a significant opportunity to further strengthen our strategic dialogue with clients by expanding our global Corporate Finance capabilities. Zubaid’s extensive transactional experience with corporate, private equity and sovereign wealth fund clients, in both the US as well as the emerging markets, will be extremely valuable to our franchise.”

“I am very pleased to join the Standard Chartered team,” says Zubaid. “Despite recent market challenges, emerging market economies will continue to enjoy superior growth prospects going forward.

At the same time, the US market offers historically attractive investment opportunities for those with long-term investment horizons. Standard Chartered’s strategic presence in key global markets positions it well to play an important role in the cross-border transaction initiatives of its client base. “

In the Americas region, Standard Chartered operates in 11 markets, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and, in Latin America, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

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