Director of Financial Institutions – Business Development (Europe)

You won't be selling a service. You'll be selling banks a way to optimise their regulatory capital.

Since CRR3/CRD VI came into force, European banks can use ratings from ESMA-registered ECAIs to calculate risk weights under the standardised approach. Our client is exactly that: an independent European credit rating agency built specifically for SMEs and midcaps, authorised across all 27 EU member states. Your pitch is regulatory, financial and institutional at once — and right now, nobody else in the market is making it.

About the company

Our client is an ESMA-registered European credit rating agency specialised exclusively in SMEs and midcaps (revenues from €0 to €1.5bn), with a presence in two major European financial hubs. It is backed at board level by senior figures from European systemic banking and multilateral finance, and is on an ambitious multi-year growth path to become the reference rating agency for European midcaps....