Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale has appointed senior banker Joseph Chia as head of supply chain management for Asia Pacific, as the lender looks to capitalise on growing corporate demand for open account trade finance solutions in the region.<\/p>\n
Chia brings over 25 years of senior banking experience in corporate banking, structured commodity finance and supply chain finance across Asia Pacific.<\/p>\n
He has a track record of building financial institution trade franchises in emerging markets, including partnerships with multilateral agencies, export credit agencies and trade credit insurers, according to Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale.<\/p>\n
Chia joins from UOB, where he was senior vice-president, regional group sales and financial supply chain management, for three years.<\/p>\n
Prior to that, he spent over 17 years at SMBC, rising through the ranks until becoming group head of supply chain finance for Asia Pacific, where he led regional teams across 13 markets.<\/p>\n
In his new role based in Singapore, Chia will report regionally to Soo Tat Kua, head of global transaction and payment services for Asia Pacific, and globally to Aur\u00e9lien Viry, chief executive officer of Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale Factoring.<\/p>\n
He will be responsible for developing the bank\u2019s accounts receivable and accounts payable solutions across the region as Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale aims to bolster its supply chain management offering and broaden its transaction banking franchise.<\/p>\n
The lender said that, as corporate and multinational clients \u201cincreasingly adopt open account trade finance solutions over traditional documentary trade instruments\u201d, supply chain management has become a \u201ckey pillar\u201d of its transaction banking business.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoseph\u2019s appointment underscores our ambition to further strengthen our supply chain management capabilities across Asia Pacific,\u201d Kua said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith his extensive regional experience and deep expertise in working capital and trade solutions, Joseph is exceptionally well positioned to help our clients optimise their supply chains, unlock greater value, and support the continued growth of our transaction banking franchise.\u201d<\/p>\n
The appointment comes as Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale has been building out its trade and transaction banking leadership more broadly.<\/p>\n
In recent months, the\u00a0bank named Zvi Wohlgemuth<\/a>\u00a0as global head of development and structured export finance, alongside his existing role as UK head of global banking and\u00a0advisory, and\u00a0appointed Eric Bonnin<\/a>\u00a0as head of trade and sustainable commodity finance for Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale has appointed senior banker Joseph Chia as head of supply chain management for Asia Pacific, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12932],"tags":[15276,34755,12955,36500,36501],"class_list":["post-58140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-societe-generale","tag-on-the-move","tag-smbc","tag-societe-generale","tag-supply-chain-finance","tag-uob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}