CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME
:
MAHMOUD EZZAT MAHMOUD SWAILAM
NATIONALITY
:
EGYPTIAN
DATE OF BIRTH
:
15.12.1954
ADDRESS
:
12 DR. NOUR EL DIN BAHGAT STREET, FROM MAKRAM
ABED, AREA 8, NASR CITY, CAIRO, EGYPT.
PHONE
:
Home 22749599
Mobile 002-01001593905
Email Mahmoud.Swailam@hotmail.com
CERTIFICATION :
Bachelor Degree in Accounting 1978
LANGUAGES
English & Italian
:
CURRENT POSITION: Head of Trade Finance
Vice President
Mashreq Bank – Cairo Head Office
(Mashreq Bank from 30/11/1996 till date)
RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Manage and supervise all trade finance operations including.
Import letters of credit.
Export letters of credit.
Inward documentary bills for collection ( IDBC’s )
Outward documentary bills for collection ( ODBC’s)
Domestic letters of guarantee.
International letters of guarantee
Special types of L/C’s as ( transferable L/C,s- Back to Back L/C’s – revolving L/C’s –
Syndicated L/C’s and L/G’s – Red clause L/C’s and advances L/C’s.
Examination of documents under the import and the export L/C’s .
Amendments under all the trade finance instruments.
Responsible for ensuring that all transactions are effected under appropriate approvals and in
strict conformity and compliance with bank's policies and procedures, ICC / UCP regulations and
local market practice / regulatory requirements for all types of documentary credits in order to
achieve error free quality standards of service and ensure satisfactory audit ratings.
- Provide value added consultative trade finance service / advice to the various business groups
(Corporate – Retail – SME customers and business teams).
- Conduct root cause analysis for occurring problems in process, suggest corrective action and
recommend changes to policies and procedures for work simplification/ process rationalization.
- Operates in an intense and dynamic environment characterized by complex regulatory
requirements, with fluctuating volumes of work.
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Ensure that daily / weekly / monthly / quarterly statistics forwarded to the Central Bank of Egypt / Head
Office / Ministry of Foreign Trade and other finance and control authorities.
- Review and approve operating procedure to simplify work flows and to insure that they are standardized,
THE RESPONSIBILITIES ARE ALSO INCLUDING ALL TRADE FINANCE FUNCTIONS AS
DETAILED IN MY ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION (KINDLY REFER).
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:
Head of (L/C’s – L/G’s – Doc. Coll.’s sections)
Riyadh Bank – Jeddah.
Head of export letters of credit in Central unit of Western Province
Riyadh Bank Jeddah – Saudi Arabia.
(From 14/12/1991 To 17/6/1993)
Deputy Manager of foreign operations Dept.
(Letters of credit import/export – local letters of guarantees & counter guarantees– documentary
collections)
Mohandes Bank (currently merged with National Bank of Egypt ).
(From 11/12/1980 To 28/11/1991)
(From 29/6/1993 To 30/10/1996)
Accountant in Egyptian – Italian Engineering and Construction “Joint Stock Co.”
From December 1978 To 10/12/1980
Responsible for all operations and accounting entries and posting to ledgers and preparation of
reviews, statements and follow up on banking transactions.
COURSES :

Foreign Operations in International Banks Interval course (3 Intervals – 4 months)
Banking Institute - CBE

Financial Analysis for International Banks
Banking Institute - CBE

International Trade Finance
Egyptian – European Association & Social development (German – Arab Chamber of Commerce)

International Rules for Stand-by Letters of Credit
Union of Arab Banks

Supervision & Leadership Skills
Egyptian – European Association & Social development (German – Arab Chamber of Commerce)

United Nations Convention for Independent letters of guarantees – Standby letters of credit and
incoterms.
Union of Arab Banks

The electronic documentary credits & the special supplement for electronic credits &
Documents.
Union of Arab Banks

The electronic commerce & Banks
Banking Institute – CBE

Uniform Customs and Practice for documentary credits – 600 new UCP (1st Draft)
Union of Arab Banks

Uniform Customs and Practice for documentary credits – 600 new UCP (3rd Draft)
Union of Arab Banks

Uniform Customs and Practice for documentary credits – 600 new UCP (Final)
Union of Arab Banks

SWIFT for Foreign trade (Documentary Credits
Collections)
MashreqBank psc. – Cairo

International standard banking practice for examination of documents under the documentary
credits (ISBP 681)- issued by Paris chamber of commerce.
Union of Arab Banks

The new uniform rules for demand guarantees issued by Paris international chamber of
commerce (URDG 758)- Jordanian chamber of commerce.

Training of trainers program sponsored by THE EGYPTIAN BANKING INSTITUTE
consisting of five courses : ( needs analysis, design, development, evaluation and
implementation. ).

Combating Money Laundering Training Program
MashreqBank psc. – Cairo

Combating Money Laundry and Terrorism Finance Conference (Sharm Al Shiekh)
Union of Arab Banks

Windows 95
IBM – Cairo

SWIFT for Documentary Credits
Banking Institute - CBE

The Quality Advantage (TQA) Workshop
MashreqBank psc. – Cairo

Preliminary computer courses ( the American university in Cairo )
Italian Language courses (Danti Allighiri Institute - Cairo)
- Letters of Guarantees – Documentary
Training Experience:
I have given lectures as instructor in Trade Finance Operations (letters of credit – letters of
guarantee – documentary collections) along with the relevant international trade rules represented in
- The uniform rules for documentary credits (UCP 600)
- The international standard banking practice for the examination of documents under
documentary credits (ISBP 745)
- Bank to bank reimbursement system under the documentary credits (URR725)
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The Uniform rules for documentary collections (URC 522)
- The new uniform rules for demand guarantees ( URDG 758 )
- The international commercial terms ( INCOTERMS 2010)
At the following institutions (for example ):- Egyptian Banking Institute. Which follow the central bank of Egypt.
- The Arab Academy for banking and financial sciences
- Economic Research and Commercial Studies Center – Faculty of Commerce, Cairo
University.
- Management and Training Center – FORMAT (Egyptian German Chamber of Commerce).
- Institute of Banking and Finance at the American University in Cairo.
- The international Management and Finance Academy.
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