Vathany Vijayaratna is the CEO for the UK and Ireland at Deutsche Bank (DB). In this role she oversees DB’s activities in the region and chairs the London Branch Board. Vathany has over 20 years of experience at DB, predominantly in Fixed Income and Currencies, where she held a variety of roles and was Global Head of FIC Structuring, before becoming the Head of Non-Financial Risk for the Investment Bank in 2022. She joined DB in 2002 as in-house counsel and moved to the front office as a structurer in 2006. Prior to DB, she worked as a lawyer at Linklaters. Vathany holds an MA in Law from Oxford University. In addition, Vathany sits on the board of UK Finance and is a member of TheCityUK leadership council and the FMSB advisory council