Nairobi, Jan. 15 -- NCBA Group Director of corporate and investment banking Tirus Mwithiga is set to take over as chief executive officer at Commercial International Bank (CIB) Kenya starting next month, marking the second time a smaller institution has recruited a leader that has worked at the Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed firm.

Mr Mwithiga, whose appointment will need to be approved by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), replaces Abhinav Nehra who has held the post for one year since his appointment in January 2025.

Mortgage financier HF Group on March 1, 2019 appointed Robert Kibaara, a former director of retail banking at NCBA (then trading as NIC), as its chief executive.

CIB Kenya said on Thu...