First Cit­i­zens Group Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings has ap­point­ed Sana Rag­bir as act­ing Group CEO, af­ter the sub­stan­tive po­si­tion be­came va­cant at the res­ig­na­tion of for­mer CEO, Ja­son Julien, as at Au­gust 31.

Rag­bir, who was the Group Deputy CEO busi­ness gen­er­a­tion, as­sumed the act­ing CEO role on Sep­tem­ber 1.

On the T&T Stock Ex­change web­site, First Cit­i­zens said her ap­point­ment fol­lows Julien’s res­ig­na­tion af­ter nine months and nine days as Group CEO, adding an­oth­er lead­er­ship change to the top ranks of the ma­jor­i­ty state-owned bank.

Rag­bir was ap­point­ed Deputy CEO busi­ness gen­er­a­tion on Ju­ly 6, 2026.

She brings more than 16 years of man­age­ment ex­pe­ri­ence, in­clud­ing 11 years at the se­nior ex­ec­u­tive lev­el, with a ca­reer span­ning the re­tail, com­mer­cial and in­vest­ment bank­ing sec­tors.

First Cit­i­zens said Rag­bir has a track record in de­liv­er­ing fi­nan­cial, op­er­a­tional and strate­gic re­sults and will now take on the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of lead­ing the group.

Her el­e­va­tion comes as the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion ad­justs to the sud­den de­par­ture of Julien, who was ap­point­ed Group CEO on Oc­to­ber 22, 2025, af­ter his pre­de­ces­sor, Karen Dar­basie, re­tired on Oc­to­ber 21.

Julien, 50, told Guardian Me­dia last month that he was “def­i­nite­ly not forced out” of First Cit­i­zens and had cho­sen to re­sign af­ter be­ing pre­sent­ed with an op­por­tu­ni­ty to work for a US com­pa­ny list­ed on Nas­daq.

He said the new role would al­low him to con­tribute to a wider Caribbean team and de­scribed it as “an ex­cit­ing new pro­fes­sion­al chal­lenge and the be­gin­ning of an­oth­er chap­ter in my ca­reer.”

Julien al­so made clear that his next em­ploy­er is out­side the fi­nan­cial sec­tor and is not a com­peti­tor of any of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s com­mer­cial banks.

While the com­pa­ny is US-list­ed, Julien said he will re­main in Trinidad.

Nas­daq, for­mal­ly the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Se­cu­ri­ties Deal­ers Au­to­mat­ed Quo­ta­tions, is one of the ma­jor US stock mar­kets and has a strong con­cen­tra­tion of tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies, al­though it al­so lists thou­sands of com­pa­nies across oth­er sec­tors.