FIMBank p.l.c., headquartered in St Julian's, Malta, on Tuesday announced the appointment of Juraj Beno as the bank's new Group Chief Financial Officer.

Mr Beno, a Slovakian national is a CFA charterholder who obtained his Masters degree with honours in Finance from the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia.

He started his banking career in 2002 with Citibank, where he worked in various finance positions in Slovakia. In 2007, he was assigned to a new Citibank franchise set up in Kuwait, where he served for five years, lastly in a Country Financial Officer role.

In 2012, he joined Burgan Bank as a Head of Strategic Financial Planning with wide responsibilities covering among others group strategy design and its implementation.

More recently, in 2019, he was appointed as Director of Performance Planning in Al Hilal Bank, United Arab Emirates, entrusted with co-leading the Integration Management Office in charge of ongoing M&A transaction workstreams delivery.

Mr Beno joined FIMBank in August 2020 and has recently been approved by regulator for the role of Group Chief Financial Officer of the Bank.