Motasim Iqbal

MD & Head of Transaction Banking Sales, Africa Middle East, Standard Chartered Bank

^{Motasim Iqbal is the Managing Director & Head of Transaction Banking Sales, Corporate Commercial & Institutional Banking for Standard Chartered Bank in the AME region since August 2020. In this role he is responsible for running the sales team covering Cash Management and Trade Finance products in the region. He is also a member of the Standard Chartered Bank UAE Country Management Team. Before taking on his current role, Motasim was the Head for Transaction Banking Sales for Global Banking clients in the United Arab Emirates and AME region and prior to that during 2017-19 he was the Head of Transaction Banking in the UAE. Previously he has worked with the Bank in Singapore as head of TB for Singapore, where he worked very closely with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on positioning Singapore as a premier Renminbi clearing market outside China. Motasim joined the Wholesale Banking business at Standard Chartered in Oct 1997 and was appointed the Head of Transaction Banking for Pakistan in 2003. In 2006, he moved to Dubai to head the Financial Institutions segment within Transaction Banking across MENA & Pakistan. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Motasim began his career as an Assistant Manager in the Treasury Division of Shell Pakistan Limited. Motasim holds an MBA degree from the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi, with majors in Banking & Finance. He has also attended various leadership programs including Leading Across Boundaries at Oxford Said Business School, Business Leadership Planning course of the Nottingham Trent University and a senior level executive course at INSEAD Singapore.}