Armin is a seasoned banking professional with over 30 years of experience, specializing in Corporate & Investment Banking, particularly in Management and Structured Trade Finance.
Since Feb 2018, he has been the Managing Director of Finantia Malta Limited, a company that belongs to Banco Finantia Group in Portugal.
He has been a senior corporate banker, starting his professional career in Germany in 1992 with WestLB in Duesseldorf as an assistant to the Board of Directors. He headed the Global Product Commodity Finance (1997-2005), when he joined Standard Bank London as Managing Director of Resource Banking and Global Structured Trade Finance. In 2008, he joined FIMBank Plc, a Maltese-based Trade Finance Specialist, as the Vice President (2008-2015) in charge of the entire banking activities in Malta, UK and Dubai.
Armin founded and chaired the German-Maltese Business Council within the Malta Chamber of Commerce (2010-2023). He has been a director in several financial institutions and companies in Malta and was until 2021 the CEO of a start-up fintech company named BotCoin Service Ltd which received a VFA-license under his leadership (2019-2021).
He got his M.Sc. in Policy Economics (1986) and his Ph.D. in Economics (1992) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Beyond his professional and academic achievements, he actively participates in academic and industry forums. He has delivered presentations at conferences in the wider field of banking, monetary systems, commodity finance, and trading and authored the book “Basics of Money & Finance in a Modern World”.
