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21 JANUARY 2022
RMB’s Aluwani Thenga named to BAFT’s Future Leaders Programme Class of 2022
BAFT, the leading global financial services association for international transactional banking, announced today its Future Leaders Programme Class of 2022. Aluwani Thenga, Head of Business Development Strategy, Corporate Transactional Banking of RMB was one of 35 individuals selected to participate. The programme – now in its seventh year – recognises upcoming leaders in the transactional banking industry.
Nominated by their respective institutions, the Class of 2022 includes individuals from 22 countries and a variety of disciplines within transaction banking. This year’s group will be divided into five project teams to address current industry issues including commercialising data, CBDCs, sustainability, digitising trade finance, and ISO 20022.
Thenga will collaborate with fellow Future Leaders on Commercialising Data in Global Transactional Banking. They will work to gather insights into how banks can optimise the data they harvest from transactional banking client activity to create a better understanding of their customers, to ultimately improve and commercialise their product and service offering.
“It’s an honour to have been handpicked by my organisation to join BAFT’s Future Leaders Programme, said Thenga. “It’s a prestigious and highly-esteemed group within the transactional banking industry and I’m eager to collaborate with my programme colleagues on critical industry issues.”
The Class of 2022 will start their programme virtually in January and will conclude at BAFT’s Global Annual Meeting in May. Several future leader council members will support the current class as mentors, joining BAFT board members who will continue to serve as project sponsors.
Thenga joins the following individuals who were selected to this year’s program:
- Attia Salim, ING Netherlands
- Raphaël Scemama, Société Générale
- Devon Falvey, Citibank
- Khaled Berto, African Export-Import Bank
- Romain d'Apolito, UniCredit Bank AG, Singapore Branch
- Tomas Zaleckas, SEB
- Dejna Zunic, Royal Bank of Canada
- Ahmad Hamza Hashmi, International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation
- David Willacy, StoneX Financial
- Roselyn Najjuma, Standard Chartered Bank
- Tuomas Autero, Nordea Bank
- Farid Al-Masri, Arab Bank Plc
- Nadine Ghandour, BNP PARIBAS
- Akshat Jain, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Limited
- Brandon Wells, Goldman Sachs
- Cyril Finan, Deutsche Bank AG
- Martin Cortazar Mueller, UBS AG
- Valentina Polimeno, Intesa Sanpaolo
- William Murray, Fulton Bank
- Kishore Kotian, Barclays Bank Plc
- Mohit Mehtaji, HSBC Bank
- Jon Boran, Lloyds Bank plc
- Ayah Al-Hneiti, The Housing Bank for Trade and Finance
- Farid Samadov, Kapitalbank
- Himath Kithsiri, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC
- Ricardo Pacheco, City National Bank
- Viktoria Rudoj, Commerzbank AG
- Leos Hruz, BBVA S.A.
- Alejandra Basañez Coppola, Banorte
- Katherine (Katie) Belchere, PNC Bank
- Marie Mohmand, Swedbank
- Min Jeong Chae, Bank of Montreal
- Anum Chaudhary, Bank of America
- Elmi Gabobe, CAC International Bank
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About BAFT
BAFT is the leading global forum for bringing the financial community, its solution providers and stakeholders together to collaborate on defining best market practices that facilitate efficient delivery of trade and cash management products and service offerings for their clients. The association website is www.baft.org.
Learn more about BAFTs Future Leader Program here
