Kina Bank Executive General Manager Banking, Lesieli Moala Taviri Appointed as PNG Country Head

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kina Securities Limited, Greg Pawson, announced today that Executive General Manager Banking, Lesieli Moala Taviri, will take up an expanded role and added responsibilities with her appointment as PNG Country Head and the formal spokesperson for Kina Bank.

“I am very happy to announce this new responsibility for Lesieli who currently leads the Bank’s branch network and operations.

It recognizes her ability and reinforces our commitment to promoting female leaders and Papua New Guinean nationals into our key executive positions.

We are a bank for Papua New Guinea and its people,” Mar Pawson said.

“As a diversified financial services organization that is proudly domiciled in Papua New Guinea, we still have enormous potential for growth in our home market and across the Pan Pacific region and we are very focused on that.

Continued growth will enable the bank to build resilience and offer a greater range of innovative financial products in PNG,” Mr Pawson said.

Kina Bank offers a range of products for both retail and business customers in PNG, whilst continuing to lead innovation in digital banking. Kina Bank has an aspiration to make its products and services more accessible than ever.

This has been done by introducing market changing products such as fee-free banking, same day issuance of Visa products and providing an exciting range of digital banking products to service the market.

Kina Bank has been and will continue to be particularly aggressive and disruptive in its product development and market leading initiatives that benefit its customers and Papua New Guinea.