Romania'sUniCredit Bank SAsaid April 8 that Mircea Cotiga, the bank's risk management director forrecovery and fraud prevention, was named CEO of UniCredit Leasing.

Cotigawill replace Antoaneta Curteanu, who has been promoted as the director forcorporate investment banking at UniCredit Bulbank Bulgaria.

Thechanges are effective in May and Curteanu will take on the new role aftercompleting the authorization process with the National Bank of Bulgaria.

Fitch Ratingsearlier affirmedUniCredit Bank's BBB/F2 long- and short-term issuer default ratings, whilerevising the outlook on the long-term rating to negative from stable.