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BANK OF AMERICA CORP
The bank said Vice Chairman Charles Noski will retire on Sept. 1, leaving the company a little more than two years after he initially joined as chief financial officer, the bank said in a filing on Friday.
STANDARD CHARTERED
British lender has named Andrew Suckling as global head of its mergers and acquisitions business, replacing high-profile Indian banker Prahlad Shantigram who resigned in April.
BARCLAYS PLC
The investment bank appointed Igor Arsenin as managing director and head of Emerging Asia Interest Rates Strategy.
Arsenin will be based in Singapore. He worked with Credit Suisse for 16 years, where he was most recently Head of Latin America Fixed Income Strategy, based in New York.
ADAM & COMPANY
The bank appointed Linda Urquhart and Alexa Henderson as Non-Executive Directors to the board of directors.
Alexa Henderson was the chairman of the board of the Scottish Building Society.
Linda Urquhart previously worked as the managing director in the Investment Performance Business in Bankers Trust of New York / Deutsche Bank.
RATHBONE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
The company appointed Stephen Hunter as investment director at its Edinburgh office. Hunter joins from Cornelian Asset Managers where he was a director.
