Little Known Info About, Eva Ngigi, Senior Equity Bank Official Who Died During Hrer China Trip

Eva Ngigi-Sarwari, a senior executive at Equity Group, has died at the age of 45 while on an official business trip to China, leaving colleagues and the financial sector in shock.

Her colleagues confirmed the news on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, describing her passing as a sudden and profound shock. No cause of death has been disclosed.

Ngigi-Sarwari was the managing director of Finserve Africa, a role she took up in April 2026, where she provided strategic leadership, commercial direction and operational oversight of Equity Group’s payments and digital financial services subsidiary.

She had also served as the group’s director of Payments and International Banking since January 2025, leading the execution of its payments vision across Africa.

On her LinkedIn profile, she described herself as a financial services leader with 20 years of experience shaping digital financial services in the region.

She said she was proudest of working with talented teams to deliver working capital and digital solutions for governments, multilateral and development organisations, and local enterprises of all sizes.

Her career spanned several major institutions. She was senior director and country manager at Visa in Nairobi from September 2020 to December 2024, after a nine-month stint as a venture lead at SC Ventures, the innovation arm of Standard Chartered.

She had earlier spent more than seven years at Standard Chartered Bank in Kenya, rising from principal in transaction banking to head of transaction banking for commercial banking.

Before that, she worked at Stanbic Bank Kenya between 2010 and 2012 as a transactional products and services sales manager.

Ngigi-Sarwari held an MBA in strategic management from the University of Nairobi and a bachelor’s degree in business management from Moi University.

She also completed the Oxford Fintech Programme and the Oxford Strategic Management Executive Programme at Saïd Business School, as well as a postgraduate diploma in Digital Business from Emeritus.

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