Ithmaar Bank announced that Abdulla Abdulaziz Ali Taleb was promoted to assistant general manager, head of the Commercial and Financial Institutions department; Ahmed Fareed Saud Buqais was promoted to senior manager and assigned head of Information Technology Infrastructure and Operations in the IT department; and Rashed Ahmed Rashed Almuawada was appointed as a manager Information Security and Compliance, Risk Management department. Taleb, who was previously executive senior manager, head, of the Commercial and Financial Institutions department since March 2015, joined Ithmaar Bank as a Senior Manager in the Corporate Banking department in January 2014. He had previously worked with BMI Bank, First Investment Bank, Shamil Bank, Khaleej Finance and Investments, the University of Bahrain and Standard Chartered Bank. Taleb holds a B.Sc. in Banking and Finance from Kingdom University in Bahrain, an Advanced Diploma in Islamic Banking from the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance and an Associate Diploma in Economics from the University of Bahrain. Buqais, who was previously a Manager in the IT department since September 2014, joined Ithmaar Bank as a Senior Associate in the same department in October 2012. Almuawada joined Ithmaar Bank in July from the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) which he joined in May 2011 and served first as a senior system administrator and then as a senior analyst in the Information Security department.