Standard Chartered has appointed Cristian Jonsson as its new global head of loan syndications, taking effect next year. He will continue to be based in Singapore and report to Carsten Stoehr, global head of capital markets.
Jonsson, who hails from Sweden, succeeds Philip Cracknell, who will retire from the bank at the end of March 2013. In the new role Jonsson will lead a team responsible for developing Standard Chartered’s global loan syndications business an integral part of the capital markets business. There are some 80 to 90 bankers within loan origination and syndication at Standard Chartered, so this is a bigger role for him.
Cracknell, a...