Crown Agents: Trad knit with new patterns giving challengers the needle

Katharine Morton

Head of Export, Project and Development Finance

Albert Maasland, CEO of Crown Agents Bank, explains what it takes to be a challenger bank that is 200 years old, and how the lender will still be “sticking to its knitting” (continuing to do what it does best) as it keeps digitally evolving.

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