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Respected veteran banker named chair of new merchant bank

He joins Heritage Capital UK after its senior management team agreed a management buyout from Banque Heritage, a Geneva-based banking group.

RBS’s Ulster said to plan job cuts

Dublin-based Ulster Bank Ltd., which eliminated 1,000 jobs in 2009, or about one-seventh of its workforce, plans to make an announcement tomorrow as its Edinburgh-based parent also unveils restructuring measures, said the people, who declined to be identi

UK Asset Manager hires governance and responsible investment head

Richards will oversee a team comprising Cathrine De Coninck-Smith, governance and responsible investment analyst, and Fionnuala O’Grady, junior governance and responsible investment analyst.

HSBC taps CEO for French unit

Christophe de Backer, CEO of HSBC France, will be leaving the Group after 21 years of service to join the Edmond de Rothschild Group.

OECD taps key executive

Ms. de Ruiter will provide strategic leadership and analytical input to the Centre's work on transfer pricing, tax treaties and financial transactions.

Brewin Dolphin makes four senior London-based hires

Advisory and wealth management firm hires four new senior executives in financial planning and charity investment management.

KPMG Appoints New Head Of UK Northwest Private Client Group

In his new role he will focus on growing KPMG’s private client practice, concentrating on the region’s leading entrepreneurs and family firms.

Rathbones expands Liverpool office with PSigma hire

joins a team of 16 investment managers who currently manage around £1.5 billion of private clients, charity and trust assets.

Oddo AM appoints new CEO‎

He will replace Guido Mundt who oversaw Oddo & Cie's takeover of Banque d’Orsay in August 2010.

North west head of private banking role created at Brown Shipley‎

He has spent seven years at the private bank and has more than 12 years’ investment management experience, is based in the Manchester office and will report to managing director Ian Sackfield.

LLB appoints new CEO as long-standing boss quits

LLB also said it was creating the new position of chief financial officer, which would be filled by Christoph Reich, head of group finance and risk since November 2010.

UK wealth firm rolls out key appointment

Jim Roberts, 60, has more than 30 years' experience in the financial services industry and brings with him extensive expertise in the retail investment market.

Kestrel adds to investment management team

KITS mitigates inheritance tax by creating individual portfolios of Aim-listed shares, which are eligible for business property relief.

Ocean Dial, appoints new CEO

A qualified Chartered Accountant, Robin has extensive financial services experience having held a number of senior positions during his career, including Head of Group Finance at Close Brothers Group plc.

Kames Capital strengthens award winning fixed income team

Kames Capital has further strengthened its award winning fixed income team with three new appointments.

FSA appoints new FSCS chair

He will take up his appointment on 1 April 2012, succeeding David Hall CBE.

Top Morgan Stanley executive said to be among London departures

Fernando Ortega, the head of emerging-market fixed-income sales and trading, Amanda Webb on the securitization sales desk and Janko Nedic, a salesman for collateralized loan obligations, also left, two other people said separately.

SNR Denton boosts banking practice with strategic hire

Edward is a leading structured finance partner, with expertise in loan portfolio sales, securitisation, regulatory capital, commercial real estate financing, project bonds, debt capital markets and derivatives transactions.

Global law firm announces second finance partner hire for 2012

Elisabeth joins Taylor Wessing from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and prior to that was a partner in the banking group of Denton Wilde Sapte.

RBS Faces Nuclear Winter as CEO Hester Dismantles Goodwin’s Bank

By Thursday lunchtime in London, the 18,900 employees in Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s investment banking division will know whether they still have jobs at Britain’s biggest government-owned lender.

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