NBK Capital, National Bank of Kuwait’s investment and merchant banking subsidiary, has appointed Oscar Silva as the chief executive of the Investment Banking Group and to the NBK Capital board. Silva is based in Kuwait and will lead a team of investment bankers located in Kuwait, Dubai, Istanbul and Beirut. Silva has 25 years of global and regional experience and has held positions in structured finance, project finance and capital markets in Citibank. He was the managing director of The Long Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), London, and worked on LTCB’s emerging markets business arm, which has operations in London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York and Singapore. Silva then set up his own investment company in London and managed two capital growth investment funds focused on emerging markets before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers in London as the head of structured finance and securitization. Before joining NBK Capital, Silva was based in Jeddah, where he built and led the corporate and structured finance business of The National Commercial Bank covering equity capital markets, debt capital markets, advisory, asset backed financing, project finance and syndications. He holds an MBA from Harvard and is a qualified lawyer.

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