Françoise Thoma, Chief Executive Officer of Spuerkeess;
Credit: Spuerkeess
On Monday 10 November 2025, Spuerkeess announced that its Chief Executive Officer Françoise Thoma will step down from the Executive Committee before the end of her current term as part of a wider strategic transformation process.
According to the Bank, the new strategic framework, defined by the Board of Directors in response to a request from its shareholder, is designed to ensure Spuerkeess’s long-term strength and leadership in a rapidly evolving financial landscape. The framework is based on four main pillars: proactive market leadership, operational and technological excellence, a strong compliance and risk management culture and a commitment to being an employer of choice.
Spuerkeess stated that the transformation calls for a “generational change” within the Executive Committee. Françoise Thoma will remain in office until her successor is appointed, after which she will assume a strategic advisory role under the authority of the Board of Directors. In this new role, she will focus on assessing the potential impact of future legal, regulatory and sectoral developments for the Bank.
“We respect Françoise Thoma’s decision and are extremely grateful for her long-standing commitment and dedication to Spuerkeess. Her leadership has been instrumental in strengthening the Bank’s market position and its core mission. She will remain a trusted partner in her new role,” said Camille Fohl, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Françoise Thoma joined Spuerkeess in 1999, became a member of the Executive Committee in 2009 and has served as CEO since 2016. Under her leadership, the Bank became a systemic institution within the eurozone in 2014, supervised by the European Central Bank (ECB) in close collaboration with the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) and the Banque centrale du Luxembourg (BCL).
Camille Fohl described the current moment as “pivotal”, noting that Spuerkeess aims to “accelerate the developments targeted by our strategic framework” and to build “a bank that remains financially strong, provides value-added services to its clients and is operationally robust, efficient and technologically advanced”.
“The new strategic framework is an ambitious and important step in the Bank’s history. I am proud of what we have achieved in recent years at Spuerkeess. It is also an opportune moment for me to pass the baton to a new generation of leaders. I am confident that Spuerkeess is ideally positioned to thrive in the coming decade, building on solid foundations. I am pleased to continue contributing to the Bank’s development through this forward-looking mission,” said Françoise Thoma.
The Board of Directors will now launch a structured process to identify a successor for the CEO position, in line with the 1989 law governing Spuerkeess and the governance framework for a systemic bank. Further announcements regarding the succession are expected in due course.
