Zarin Daruwala, Cluster CEO, India & South Asia, Standard Chartered, arrived in Dhaka recently for her first official visit to Bangladesh.
Zarin was accompanied by Heidi Toribio, Regional Co-Head, Client Coverage, Asia, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking (CCIB), Standard Chartered.
Over the course of the four-day visit, they met with regulators, the bank’s clients, and other important stakeholders.
In addition to being Zarin’s first official visit to Bangladesh, the trip marked the first visit by the Bank’s senior regional heads since 2020. The key agenda for the visit was to further deepen the Bank’s long-standing strategic partnership with the nation’s public and private sectors and to help drive forward the nation’s economic aspirations and journey towards prosperity.
Zarin Daruwala is the Cluster CEO for India and South Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka). With a career spanning 31 years, Zarin has worked across a number of banking functions from wholesale banking, agri-finance, corporate finance, corporate planning to investment banking and credit.
Heidi Toribio was appointed Regional Co-Head of Client Coverage, Asia, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking (CCIB) in February 2021. In her role, Heidi is responsible for Standard Chartered’s CCIB business as well as for managing the relationships with the Bank’s corporate and institutional clients in the region.
Heidi is a member of the CCIB Client Coverage Management Team and the Chairwoman of the Board of Standard Chartered Bank (Thai) PCL since September 2021.
