Mohammad Aftab Manzoor is expected to replace Atif Bajwa as President Soneri Bank Ltd., it is reliably learnt. Bajwa will be moving to Abu Dhabi Group of UAE. Mohammad Aftab Manzoor is a career banker having 28 years of experience in banking and proven track record of excellence in banking industry.
He remained with Citibank N.A for 15 years. During this time he worked as Business Head for Corporate Banking and Business Head for Product Group-Cash Management, Financial Institutions and Custody. He was also a guest reviewer on Credit Review teams across the world for Citibank NA.
He joined MCB Bank Limited Pakistan as SEVP- Group Head Credit & Risk Management in 1998. During this two-year period he revamped the bank's credit manuals and automated the processes, upgraded the Monitoring & Credit Administration with a perspective of bringing down NPLs to the lowest level amongst the peer group.
He was President and Chief Executive Officer of MCB for 7 years. MCB, the fourth largest bank in Pakistan had employee force of over 9000 people having branch network of over 1000 branches offering full service of banking across the country and overseas. He contributed by successfully restructuring the Bank with a strongest financial ratios, during his tenor the bank secured highest Moody's rating in the Country.
Under his dynamic leadership the Bank received the prestigious Euro Money Award six times and MCB was declared the best domestic bank for 3 years by Asia Money. He also had the distinction of launching complete range of Consumer Banking Products as well as Islamic Banking Products, making MCB the first largest network bank in this segment.
He became the President of ABL for a three year period before joining KASB Bank as President.