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Anarkali Moonesinghe |
DFCC Bank PLC has appointed Anarkali Moonesinghe to its Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director.
Moonesinghe brings over 25 years of experience in investment banking, capital markets, and corporate finance across Europe and Asia, with depth in emerging and frontier market financial institutions. Her experience spans mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, private equity investments, and balance-sheet and capital structuring advisory.
She previously served as Chief Executive Officer of CIMB Investment Bank, Sri Lanka, where she established and led the bank’s investment banking operations, advising domestic and international clients on complex cross-border transactions, capital raising, and strategic investments within the Sri Lankan banking and financial services sector. Her work included advising global institutional investors and financial sponsors on acquisitions, recapitalisations, and equity investments in listed and unlisted entities.
Prior to this, Moonesinghe was a Partner at Amura Consulting (Singapore), providing corporate finance and financial structuring advisory services to financial institutions, private equity funds, and corporates operating in frontier markets. She began her career with Merrill Lynch, working in Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance in Singapore and London, where she gained experience in equity, equity-linked, and debt financing transactions, as well as financial risk analysis across multiple industries.
Moonesinghe currently serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the Board of hSenid Business Solutions PLC, where she chairs the Related Party Committee, and is a Shareholder and Non-Independent, Non-Executive Director of WealthTrust Securities PLC.
She holds an MA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford. Additionally, she completed an Intensive Executive MBA at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.
