CEO Today Global Awards

50 UNITED KINGDOM www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today Global Awards 2020 ALBERT MAASLAND Group CEO of Crown Agents Bank and Crown Agents Investment Management What impact has your innovation-led transformation resulted in? Albert has steered the bank to deliver two consecutive years of over 50% revenue growth and has overseen the expansion of the team from 62 members of staff in 2016 to 175 in 2020. In this time, Crown Agents Bank has processed more than $15 billion in FX transactions across a wide range of frontier and G20 currencies, on behalf of the many governments, International Development Organisations, banks and Non-Bank Financial Institutions it serves. Crown Agents Bank has embarked on an innovation-led transformation, integrating new technologies and platforms to help make the bank’s vast network and FX pricing capabilities accessible to a wider audience. By lowering the www.linkedin.com/in/albertmaaslandned/ +44 (0) 20 3903 2841 | www.crownagentsbank.com About Albert Maasland Albert Maasland joined Crown Agents Bank, a UK regulated provider of wholesale foreign exchange and cross-border payments services, as CEO in 2017 following its acquisition by Helios in 2016. He is a highly accomplished global business leader, entrepreneur and mentor, who has a proven track record of heading, restructuring and growing specialist financial services companies and divisions at some of the world’s best- known banks. Having co-founded businesses in the UK, Northern Ireland, Canada and Zimbabwe, he has a truly international mindset. He has spearheaded multi-billion- dollar acquisitions and post-acquisition integrations and divestitures at companies in both developed and emerging markets. Prior to joining Crown Agents Bank, Albert held senior Executive and C-Suite roles within leading international banks and financial services organisations, including Saxo Bank, Standard Chartered, Deutsche and HSBC. Albert combines a keen interest in the Fintech sector and deep domain experience in transaction banking and foreign exchange.