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Poupet's first year at the helm of BRD: In a banker's life there are good, as well as bad years
22.02.2011, 00:04 | Finance-Banks | 800 views
How to strike a balance between the caution needed to protect the bank's results and the commitment of expanding operations further, this was the main challenge in 2010 for Guy Poupet, chairman of BRD-SocGen, in the first year since he took the reins of the second biggest bank on the market. "It was a challenging year professionally because of the economic environment and the ensuing difficulties for the banking system, but I've had much tougher periods during my career," the BRD head says. Poupet, 59, has a 36-year career with Societe Generale French group behind him, a period during which he filled top management positions on various markets such as Argentina, Senegal, the Czech Republic and Egypt. Read more on ZF.ro
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