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Astrid Mitchell
· Editor
- Laos’ Parliament has removed Bounleua Sinxayvoravong as Governor of the Bank of the Lao PDR, a position he held since 2022. Vathana Dalaloy, who previously served as Deputy Governor, has been appointed Acting Governor.
- Washington Ribeiro, Vice President of the Central Bank of Uruguay since 2020, has been appointed President, replacing Diego Labat.
- The Taliban leadership has appointed Noor Ahmad Agha, a military leader who is under international sanctions for terrorism, as Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank, having served as its First Deputy Governor after the Taliban regained power in August 2021.
- The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has dismissed the top management team of Nigerian Security Printing and Minting and appointed Abubakar Sule Minjibr as the acting Managing Director. He replaces Ahmed Halilu, the company’s former Managing Director and CEO, who was appointed in 2022 by the former President and is widely reported to be his brother-in- law.
- IN Groupe – the French state-owned security and identity solutions provider and owner of SURYS and Gleitsmann Security Inks – has split the role of CEO and Chairman and appointed Agnès Diallo to the former position. She is already familiar with IN Groupe, having served there from 2019 to 2022 as Executive Vice President and member of the Executive Committee, and rejoins from eu-LISA, the European agency responsible for information systems within the Schengen area concerning security, borders, and judicial cooperation. The new Chairman, and former CEO, is Didier Trutt.
- Schuler has announced the appointment of Martin Drasch as its new CEO, effective from October. He has previously worked in various management positions at Eisenmann and as Chief Operating Officer at mechanical engineering company Manz.
- Michel Saunders has joined blanks manufacture Artazn as Vice President, International Sales. He was formerly Commercial Director, Americas for Crane Currency and, prior to that, International Sales Director for the Royal Canadian Mint.
- Sergio Sanchez, formerly Vice President/Director Americas at Currency Research, has joined Crane Currency as Commercial Director, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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