HSBC Bank Malta has announced three new appointments in its International Commercial Banking team.

Gordon Scicluna is HSBC Malta’s Senior International Banking Manager and Head of Payments and Cash Management; Gaetano Sammut is Head of Trade and Receivables Finance and Vincent Borg, Senior Invoice Finance Manager.

Mr Scicluna’s experience encompasses more than 22 years in financial services, during which he performed a number of senior management roles within the personal and commercial banking arena. He worked as branch manager and led the contact centre. Mr Scicluna also project-managed the implementation of HSBC Contact Centre at Swatar, which caters for the UK market. He then moved to commercial banking and prior to this new appointment he was senior manager for SMEs and occupied the post of senior receivables finance manager, responsible for managing the bank’s receivables finance business.

Gaetano Sammut joined the banking sector in 1977 and specialised in trade services, credit management, and credit and risk. In 2009, Mr. Sammut was appointed Head of Trade and Supply Chain, responsible for financing international trade. He is an associat of the Institute of Financial Services, for which he has also previously served as board member as well as secretary. Mr. Sammut is currently a board member of the Maltese Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

Vincent Borg  worked in various branches around the island before being appointed Financial Planning Manager.  He then worked as a Compliance Manager for the Bank and later joined HSBC Life Assurance (Malta) Ltd where he ran business development, underwriting and claims departments for the next six years. In 2011, Mr Borg moved to Commercial Banking as Senior Receivables Finance Manager.