Rowan Austin

Head of Trade Origination & Advisory, NatWest

^{Rowan is Head of Trade Origination & Advisory for NatWest, and has extensive cross-product and sectoral knowledge having worked for four banks across six continents. He commenced his banking career with Goldman Sachs, before joining Barclays and performing roles across Corporate, International and Investment Banking. Having developed a specialism in corporate and cross-border finance, Rowan then joined Europe Arab Bank where he built a commodity and trade finance function across Europe and the Middle East / North Africa region, as well as building an Islamic Finance capability. Rowan joined NatWest in 2011 to develop a Debt Product Management function, with responsibility for lending products and portfolio performance across the Corporate bank. Having then supported the restructuring of the global business to focus on core UK and western European markets, he was subsequently appointed to lead the Trade & Working Capital Product function which focused on delivering product and service excellence to NatWest’s customers. Now leading the Trade Origination & Advisory team, Rowan is driving NatWest’s presence and capability in the Trade Finance market, with a key focus on innovation, digitisation and business development across all product areas.}