London-based Shariah compliant Bank of London and the Middle East has appointed Muriel Simon, Fazal Ahmed and Ihab Al-Derzi as private bankers following its launch in January this year.
 
Ms Simon joins BLME Private Banking from UBS London, where she focused on UK resident non-domiciled high net worth clients. She will advise on investments as well as credit and wealth restructuring solutions for BLME’s Private Banking clients. Before UBS, she worked at Barclays Wealth, advising its international high net worth clients. Prior to that Ms Simon also worked at JP Morgan Investment Bank where she dealt with French institutions designing FX derivatives structures.

Mr Ahmed joins BLME from Bank of Ireland Property Finance where he specialised in the European real estate market. Previously he worked for RBS and Lloyds TSB, managing an international client base, focusing on structuring real estate debt solutions for large corporates and high net worth clients. 

Mr Al-Derzi joins BLME from Barclays Bank, where he worked within the Retail, Commercial and Private Client divisions. Prior to this, he was the head of Private Banking at Islamic Bank of Britain in London.

BLME Private Banking will provide Islamic finance and banking to high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs and their corporations in the UK, Europe and Middle East.