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The Lion King
• July - September 2017
Business
UBA NEW YORK’S EXECUTIVES
OPERATIONS
UBANY has implemented a world
class IT infrastructure comprising bank-
ing applications and an Anti-Money
Laundering application. The bank
is linked seamlessly to the Federal
Reserve clearing system and the
S.W.I.F.T network. The bank has also
developed and implemented emer-
gency preparedness procedures
designed to minimize the impact of
any emergency or business disruption.
The procedures cover both short term
disruptions and long term disasters.
Therefore, for each operational sys-
tem, adequate precautions are taken
to ensure that all operations can ade-
quately recover from damage to, or
inability to access and use the hard
ware, software and critical data. For
all systems there is secure and remote
backup storage of data files and pro-
grams. The Continuity of Business pro-
cess is tested annually.
FRANKLIN EREBOR
Deputy Head, UBANY
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Franklin Erebor has over 26 years
banking experience in Corporate,
Investment
and
Commercial
Banking and rose to the position of
Country Managing Director/ Chief
Executive Officer. He has been
involved in various transaction struc-
turing, product development, proj-
ect financing, export financing and
financial advisory services.
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Franklin holds a Master of Philosophy
(M.Phil.) in International Finance
from the University of Glasgow,
Scotland, an MBA in Finance
from the University of Benin and
a BSc (Hons.) Economics from the
University of Benin.
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He has also attended various
Management Programs and is an
alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School
of Government (USA), Harvard
Business School (USA), University
of Pennsylvania -The Wharton
Graduate School of Business (USA)
and Stanford Graduate School of
Business (USA).
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Mr. Erebor is a distinguished British
Chevening Scholar and a multi-
ple award winning senior African
banking executive with vast expe-
rience spanning Anglophone,
Francophone and Lusophone
Africa, entailing formulation of indus-
trial policy, business development,
leading change and coordinating
cross functional teams across geog-
raphies and global value chains.
RAFIQ BENGALI
General Manager, UBANY
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M. Rafiq Bengali joined United Bank
of Africa in March 2014 as the GM
of its New York Operations. He is
responsible for the Strategic direc-
tion of the USA Operations of UBANY.
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Ensuring best practices for business
conduct, efficiency and profitabil-
ity, at the same time ensuring safety
and soundness as a core philosophy.
Rafiq managed the International
Division for NBP with 19 branches
in 13 foreign locations for 2 years.
During the period 1998 to 2011, he
was Regional Chief Executive for
the Americas Region of National
Bank of Pakistan with responsibil-
ity for three units in the USA (New
York, Washington DC & Chicago).
During March 2002 – March 2005,
he was also responsible for two
units in Europe (Paris & Frankfurt)
and, effective September 1, 2008,
took on additional responsibility for
Canada.
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Rafiq started his career at Bank
of America in San Francisco and
held various assignments in corpo-
rate finance, branch and regional
management for 14 years in Paris,
London, Bahrain and New York. In
New York, he was Vice President
and Section Head, Europe, Middle
East and Africa Division at the
Global Financial Institutions Group.
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His
educational
qualifica-
tions include a BS and an MBA
in Accounting and Finance from
University of California, Berkeley. He
has been a charter board member
of Institute of International Banks
and a member of IIF and ABANA.
