Standard Chartered names Sal Vitale as US coverage head

(Reuters) - Standard Chartered (OTC:) has named Sal Vitale arsenic managing manager and caput of sum for the U.S. and the Americas, the slope said connected Tuesday.

Vitale brings astir 25 years of firm and concern banking experience, having antecedently served arsenic managing manager and caput of U.S. firm sum astatine Deutsche Bank (ETR:).

He spent implicit 15 years astatine Bank of America Merrill Lynch (NYSE:), wherever helium worked successful corporate, concern banking, and indebtedness superior markets, focusing connected energy, power, and concern clients.

In the caller role, Sal volition spearhead efforts to fortify the bank's sum capability, connecting firm and fiscal instauration clients to its planetary footprint, Standard Chartered said.

Based successful New York, Vitale volition study to elder leaders crossed planetary firm and fiscal institutions coverage, arsenic good arsenic to Steven Cranwell, CEO of the U.S. and the Americas.