GCB Financial institution PLC (GCB) has appointed a brand new Govt, Aurelia Baaba Ofori Odame as Head of Afro Asia Commerce and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs).
The strategic appointment comes at a pivotal time because the Financial institution accelerates its dedication to deepening cross-regional commerce, enhancing public sector partnerships, and unlocking new development alternatives throughout Africa and Asia.
On this new position, she is going to lead the event and execution of the Financial institution’s Afro- Asia commerce and SOE engagement technique throughout two of the world’s most dynamic and quickly evolving financial areas.
A press release issued by the Financial institution in Accra yesterday stated “The place displays the Financial institution’s imaginative and prescient to be a bridge between rising markets facilitating capital, commerce flows, entry to markets and improvement impression.”
The Africa-Asia commerce hall has grown considerably over the previous decade, pushed by increasing infrastructure funding, digital transformation, and rising private-public sector collaboration.
On the similar time, SOEs proceed to play an important position in nationwide improvement agendas, significantly in sectors corresponding to agriculture, well being, sustainable power, transportation, training and telecommunications.
That is an opportune time for GCB Financial institution to help and considerably impression commerce flows and actions in each mature and rising commerce corridors.
“At GCB we acknowledge our place as an indigenous financial institution passionate in regards to the development of Ghanaian companies and improvement of the economic system,” Managing Director, Farihan Alhassan stated.
“Ms Odame’s mandate subsequently is to ship a cohesive technique that enhances the Financial institution’s choices to SOEs and commerce purchasers, encompassing bespoke monetary options, sustainable commerce finance, and advisory providers to benefit from the alternatives in Africa and Asia for nationwide development.”
The Financial institution’s technique to being ‘buyer centric’ and ‘obsessed’ with purchasers, calls for a deep understanding of shopper wants, proactive engagement and the event of tailor-made options that create actual worth for companies and for sectors.
“Along with her appointment, the Financial institution reaffirms its dedication to supporting inclusive and sustainable commerce development with Africa and remainder of the world, creating entry to market alternatives for companies and enabling infrastructure and industrial transformation by funding,” the assertion stated.
She brings deep experience, regional data, and a robust monitor document in constructing cross-border relationships inside Africa and Asia that will likely be instrumental in shaping the Financial institution’s future.
Ms Odame is a seasoned banking govt with over 17 years of expertise in retail, company, and industrial banking, specializing in cross-border commerce, commerce finance, relationship administration, and strategic enterprise improvement.
She joins GCB from Stanbic Financial institution, the place she led the Africa-China Commerce Banking unit, pioneering a transformative franchise bridging commerce between Ghana and China and creating intra-Africa corridors.
Below her management, the flagship franchise achieved over one hundred pc year-on-year stability sheet development and facilitated export inflows exceeding USD 350 million, making it one of the worthwhile and fastest-growing inside the Customary Financial institution Group.
BY TIMES REPORTER
