Eye on Banking
L-R: Aaron Ennis, Shaun McAnee, Azem Hanif and Lewis McCallan.
Supporting Ambition… Danske Bank’s head of corporate banking, Shaun McAnee, has a simple three strand philosophy that he applies to the bank’s work with some of Northern Ireland’s leading businesses.
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eliver for your customers; deliver results; manage your risk. It is a formula he has lived by throughout a career that has taken in management positions in banking, finance, sales and project management. It is a career that began with his first role as a junior official at the bank and which eventually brought him ‘back home’ to Danske in 2012 as head of Specialist Business, looking after product lines such as cash management, invoice finance, trade finance, asset
finance and export finance. Shaun says the team is seeing a gradual increase in demand for working capital facilities across its broad client base as confidence returns to the economy. But he expects this demand to rise further in the year ahead as the appetite for growth filters through to all parts of the business community. “We want to support businesses here to grow, to invest in new premises, to buy new equipment and make acquisitions. We’re servicing companies