Mr. Omar Mboob is the Deputy Managing Director of the Bank. He joined Trust Bank in January 1999 at the age of 22 as a Cashier and rose through the ranks to Head of the Finance Department in July 2016 before being re-assigned to head the Business arm of the Bank at Corporate Banking Department in June 2017. He has over 23 years of Banking experience.

Whilst at the Finance Department, Omar was also managing the Treasury (Local Currency component) until June 2016 when the Bank merged the treasury management under the Finance Department with that of the Foreign Operations Department to a redesigned and more effective central Treasury Department.

Omar served as the Vice President (2011-2013) and later President (2013-2015) of The Gambia Interbank Dealers Association (GIDA) during which time he pioneered the establishment of the Bankers Hour Radio Program launched in 2011. He anchored the Saturday afternoon Bankers’ Hour radio program and the Sunday evening Finance Economic and Business (FEB) hour on West Coast Radio 92.1 FM for almost a decade which were effectively used as platforms to sensitize the rolling out of the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) payment systems (ACP/ACH, RTGS, SSS, and GamSwitch) and was recognized at the 2019 Annual Bankers’ Dinner.

Mr. Mboob represented the Gambia Bankers Association at several regional meetings such as exploring the possibilities of quoting a sub-regional cross currency rate of the WAMZ countries in Freetown, Sierra Leone in April 2010 and at the first Ecowas Regional Payments Systems meeting (ECOREPS) to discuss possibilities of integrating the payment systems in ECOWAS at the Ecowas commission in Abuja, Nigeria in October 2014.

Omar Presented a paper on Banks’ challenges to Financing Agriculture on behalf of the Banker’s Association organized by FAO (the Gambia) in January 2019.

He also Presented a paper on Housing Development Finance in The Gambia-Making the Real Estate Sector work for all, at the 4th TAF AFRICA GLOBAL Annual Conference (TAFCON) in December 2018. He is also a regular on the TAF HUB TV show discussing all matters relating to Banking and Real Estate.

Omar was the most outstanding delegate on the Regional Course on International Financial Reporting Standards organized by WAIFEM in Abuja Nigeria from 28th May to 1st June 2012 and was the Class Governor of the same prestigious course held in Accra, Ghana in February 2016.

Omar is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of UK (FCCA) and holds a certificate of Professional Development specializing in Financial Management from Illinois State University (USA).

Omar currently serves as a Director at Trust Bank Limited and Bayba Financial Services.