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Central Bank of The Bahamas recruits banks and trusts inspector

The Central Bank of The Bahamas has appointed Stanislaw Bereza as its inspector of banks & trust companies.

In his previous role, Bereza served was a senior relationship manager with the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA)/Bank of England, where he worked for 13 years and eight months. Most recently, he was responsible for the supervision of the London based operations of a number of major international investment and commercial banks.

He also represented the FSA on the senior supervisors group convened to evaluate the effectiveness of current risk management practices during the recent financial market turbulence.

During his time the FSA, Bereza held several other positions including:

  • project manager for the FSA team responsible for the development of the FSA’s industry-wide risk assessment framework for all UK authorised firms,
  • senior manager and head of the FSA’s traded markets department, and,
  •  senior manager, emerging markets department of the bank supervision division of the FSA.

During this last assigment he participated in World Bank/IMF missions focused on bank restructuring and the development of banking supervision for the Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia and Indonesia.

Bereza’s international work experience also includes a two-year posting as a financial specialist in the Financial Sector Development Division of the World Bank in Washington DC, where he worked on a number of bank restructuring and institutional development projects in emerging markets.

During 1990 to 1992, he was seconded to the Ministry of Finance of Poland/National Bank of Poland as the UK government Know How fund adviser to assist the Polish authorities in the restructuring of state owned banks and the development of the banking supervision regime.

He has also held several key positions at Barclays Bank PLC, including senior manager in the capital efficiency team and UK head of balance sheet management. His main responsibilities included the development of risk management policies and procedures and responses to regulatory requirements and corporate planning.