Investec has made a trio of new hires to its London intermediary mortgage team.
The bank says the appointments – Chris Watts, Kieran Emmanuel and Zulfi Islam – are “part of a drive to expand the team to meet the continued demand for its services”.
Watts joins from Synergy Bank and has been appointed as a business development manager. He has twenty years of experience in the financial services industry, including roles at Bank of Butterfield and Harrods Bank, with the majority of his career focused on helping structure complex residential mortgages for high net worth individuals.
Emmanuel has been promoted to associate business development manager. He originally joined the bank’s private client lending unit after graduating from university in 2019.
While Islam has been appointed as apprentice business development manager, becoming the lender’s first apprentice BDM, a role that will last for 18 months.
Investec head of intermediary business development Peter Izard says: “The mortgage intermediary business development team is seeing high demand for our services, and we needed to bolster the team to continue to meet our growth plans. We are pleased that Chris and Zulfi are joining the business and to announce our promotion of Kieran within the team.”
Investec works with private, institutional and corporate clients, offering international banking, investment and wealth management services in two principal markets, South Africa and the UK, as well as certain other countries.
The group, founded in 1975, is listed on the London and the Johannesburg stock exchanges.