Alantra appoints Zak Chaudary as Managing Director strengthening its capital optimization capabilities

London, 02 September 2026 – Alantra, the independent global mid-market financial services firm, has strengthened its Financial Institutions Group (FIG) with the appointment of Zak Chaudary as a Managing Director. Based in London, Zak will complement the firm’s structured finance capabilities and lead its Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) arranging activities.

Zak brings more than 20 years of experience in structured credit, securitization, and credit financing, with particular expertise in structuring, arranging, and syndicating complex SRT transactions.

He joins Alantra from Deutsche Bank, where he had worked since 2007 across a range of roles including the development, structuring, and execution of the bank’s SRT issuance programs.

Zak’s appointment further strengthens Alantra’s structured finance advisory and arranger capabilities and its ability to support financial institutions with tailored solutions to transfer credit risk, optimize regulatory capital, and strengthen their balance sheets.

Alantra’s FIG team comprises more than 80 dedicated professionals advising banks, non-bank lenders, investors, and corporations. The team provides strategic and financial advice across capital, risk, and funding solutions, including public and private securitizations, strategic partnerships, portfolio transactions, and M&A.

Since 2020, the team has completed more than 350 FIG transactions for over 100 clients, representing an aggregate deal value of approximately €170bn. Recent FIG transactions include advising Helaba on the €2.3bn synthetic STS securitization of a portfolio of corporate exposures, acting as sole arranger and financial adviser to Piraeus Bank on its €2bn synthetic STS securitization of corporate and SME exposures, acting as Joint Lead Arranger to Bank of Scotland, part of Lloyds Banking Group, on a £1bn deconsolidating securitization of residential mortgages, acting as sole arranger of a €300mn forward flow of equity release mortgages to Arrago and acting as sole advisor to Openbank on the €750mn divestment of its mortgage portfolio.