George Nast has a lot resting on his shoulders. As Standard Chartered Bank's new global head of product management for transaction banking, he is responsible for what group head of transaction banking Karen Fawcett has termed a refocus of the bank's products to be entirely driven by customer needs.
Having joined the bank in January, Nast comes prepared. Previously a partner in McKinsey Company's Asia-Pacific wholesale banking practice, he has experience advising corporates and financial institutions on matters related to transaction, corporate and investment banking as well as capital markets, exchanges and securitisation. This gives him insight to both sides of the equation -- what corporates want and don't want...