Credit Agricole CIB appoints Atul Sodhi as senior country officer for UK

Credit Agricole CIB has appointed Atul Sodhi as senior country officer for the United Kingdom effective September 1, with the move making the veteran banker one of the senior most Indian-born executives in the European banking landscape.

Sodhi will report to Georg Orssich, senior regional officer for Europe excluding France. Sodhi will oversee the business development and strategy of the bank’s commercial franchise in the UK, Credit Agricole CIB said in a statement.

Sodhi will also join the bank’s management committee. A banker with more than 32 years of experience, Sodhi has been with Credit Agricole CIB since 1997.


From 2004 to 2007, Sodhi was head of coverage for India, based out of Mumbai. He then became the head of the loan syndication business for Asia-Pacific based out of Hong Kong from 2007 to 2015. In 2019, he was appointed global head of debt capital markets.

Credit Agricole CIB, is the corporate and investment banking arm of the Credit Agricole Group, which is the third largest bank in Europe by total assets, according to S&P Global.

In Jan-March, the bank, which is France’s second largest, reported a 55% rise in net profit at 1.9 billion euro, topping estimates. Sales rose 11% to 6.81 billion euros.