{"id":110832,"date":"2015-04-23T13:12:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T13:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=110832"},"modified":"2015-04-23T18:45:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:45:55","slug":"hfc-bank-names-asare-akuffos-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=110832","title":{"rendered":"HFC bank appoints acting MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HFC bank has appointed Osei Asafo Adjei as its acting managing director.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Aeq17IMt0LotFcrS8FrtgpEJHyyQEYlB&#8221;]Osei Asafo Adjei prior to this appointment was HFC&#8217;s Director of Corporate banking.<\/p>\n<p>Citi Business News has gathered the bank&#8217;s board approved Osei Asafo Adjei&#8217;s appointment in a meeting yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Asafo-Adjei was appointed Executive Director, Corporate Banking of HFC in June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his appointment, he was the General Manager Business Development at The Trust Bank (TTB).<\/p>\n<p>In his capacity as the General Manager Business Development (TTB) he was responsible for all the lending functions including Corporate Banking, Business Banking, Financial Institutions &amp; Markets.<\/p>\n<p>He was also in charge of Treasury, Retail and Private Banking as well as Marketing and Communication Development.<\/p>\n<p>He holds a BSc. Agriculture Economics degree and a Master of Philosophy in Agriculture Economics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Asafo-Adjei will be taking over from Asare Akuffo who has been MD of HFC for close to 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Asare Akuffo whose contract ends as on the 30th of June,2015 and also due for retirement has requested to leave before that date to take up his accumulated holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Asare Akuffo joined HFC bank in 1990 having worked as an investment manager at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed Finance Director in 1995 and later the Deputy Managing Director in 2003 when HFC converted to a bank.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005 he was made the Managing Director of HFC Bank Ghana Limited.<\/p>\n<p>Asare Akuffo addressing shareholders for the last time this morning as MD of the bank at the bank&#8217;s ongoing Annual General Meeting (AGM) confirmed he will be stepping down as MD of HFC tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>According to him the bank enjoyed tremendous success during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the bank&#8217;s board chairman Muriel Edusei has resigned with immediate effect from the board.<\/p>\n<p>She also announced this to shareholders a few minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>No named has popped up yet for her replacement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Vivian Kai Lokko\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HFC bank has appointed Osei Asafo Adjei as its acting managing director. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Aeq17IMt0LotFcrS8FrtgpEJHyyQEYlB&#8221;]Osei Asafo Adjei prior to this appointment was HFC&#8217;s Director of Corporate banking. Citi Business News has gathered the bank&#8217;s board approved Osei Asafo Adjei&#8217;s appointment in a meeting yesterday. Mr. Asafo-Adjei was appointed Executive Director, Corporate Banking of HFC in June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":102861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-110832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}