StanChart’s De Giorgi on moving from investment banker to CFO

Diego De Giorgi’s arrival at Standard Chartered has coincided with important changes at the bank. He talks to Euromoney about the transition from investment banker to chief financial officer, and how the firm can further leverage its advantages amid growing profitability and geopolitical risk.

He’s smart, but is he really a chief financial officer?

“For me, he wasn’t the bean-counting CFO-type” muses one former colleague of Diego De Giorgi when asked about the former investment banker’s surprise move to Standard Chartered to become group CFO.

De Giorgi became StanChart’s CFO this year in a return to front-line banking and to London, after almost five years away. A native Italian, for most of his career he was a Europe-focused financial institutions and equity capital markets investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

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