Under-fire banking giant Barclays today named its retail and business banking boss Antony Jenkins as chief executive.
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Philips UK & Ireland has promoted its consumer lifestyle division’s top marketer Joanna Elliott to the role of managing director of the division.
UBS GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
The Swiss bank rehired Kai Sotorp as head of Asia Pacific. He would begin in his new role from Sept 3.
Sotorp held the same position at UBS between 2002 and 2004 and was head of the Americas between 2004 and 2010.
BARCLAYS PLC
The bank named Antony Jenkins as director and group chief executive.
Jenkin was previously the chief executive of Barclays’ retail and business banking segment.
AAREAL BANK AG
Tammo Diemer, who runs treasury operations at the real estate bank, has been appointed as chief of Germany’s finance agency, the finance ministry said on Tuesday.
He replaces Carl Heinz Daube and would begin in his new role by April 2013.
ERNST & YOUNG LLP
The accountancy firm named Robin Gaddum as senior manager to oversee its business continuity and organisational resilience offering, while Emma Butler has been appointed in a managerial role, specialising in data protection and privacy.
Gaddum joins from IBM’s UK business and Butler was previously with the Information Commissioners Office.
PIONEER INVESTMENTS
The asset management arm of Italian bank UniCredit appointed Nicholas Pothier as senior portfolio manager. He would be based in Dublin.
Pothier joins from HSBC Global Asset Management.
HARRIS PRIVATE BANK
The bank, part of BMO Financial Group, appointed Craig Hagen as senior private banker.
Hagen previously held senior positions at two leading wealth management firms.
