Rozanne appointed Head of Trade and Supply Chain at HSBC

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HSBC has appointed Rozanne De Almeida as the new Head of Trade and Supply Chain with effect from September 2010. Rozanne succeeds Eraj Wimalasuriya, who headed HSBC’s Trade business since July 2006, and recently moved to HSBC in the UK.

Rozanne de Almeida

Rozanne has enjoyed a successful career at HSBC with over 20 years of experience in both Personal Banking and Trade services. Her extensive experience in Trade alone spans over 12 years. In her current role, Rozanne will continue to drive HSBC’s Trade business to even greater heights by guiding the Trade and Supply Chain business, combining international standards with local expertise to provide the best proposition to the local Trade Finance market.

HSBC has played a key role in international trade since 1865. Today with over 140 years of international trade experience and the ability to combine global reach and local knowledge, HSBC Trade and Supply Chain is ideally placed to partner local businesses on a global platform with a network spanning over 8,000 offices in 87 countries and territories, supported by advanced technology and award-winning expertise.

Leveraging on this global network HSBC Trade and Supply Chain offers the widest range of Trade products and services from traditional methods of facilitating imports and exports to innovative structured trade finance solutions. Locally, HSBC has a strong trade franchise in the corporate banking market covering Multinationals, Large Local Corporates as well as the SME sector.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited is the founding and a principal member of the HSBC Group which, with around 8,000 branches in 87 countries and territories and assets of US$2,418 billion at 30 June 2010, is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations.