Board Member
George Wilson
George is the CEO of the ARM Africa Trade Finance fund, a new alternative investment vehicle focused on the continent. His career began as a Common Law Barrister in London, followed by senior legal and compliance roles in investment banking with CSFB and BarCap.
Transitioning to emerging markets banking, George managed regulatory aspects of Barclays’ Absa acquisition in South Africa before moving to Asia for credit trading, structuring, and special situations with UBS, Lehman Brothers, and Nomura, where he co-managed the largest Asian Collateralized Loan Obligation at the time.
Returning to Africa, he led Institutional Trade Finance divisions at Barclays Africa (then Absa) and subsequently at Investec South Africa, where he initiated their Trade Finance offering. George specializes in developing innovative, short-term trade financing solutions for African Financial Institutions, specifically targeting the SME funding gap, hard currency liquidity constraints, and regulatory capital challenges through DFI partnerships and advanced credit risk mitigation techniques.