Signing up as Finance Director at Bank of Scotland

The Royal Bank of Scotland has hired New Zealander Ewen Stevenson, of Credit Suisse, as its new finance director, to help restore the health of the part-nationalised bank, which lost 8.2 billion pounds last year. He joins fellow New Zealander Ross McEwan, who became chief executive of RBS last October.

Stevenson was co-head of investment banking for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Credit Suisse.

Stevenson was on the team of Credit Suisse that advised the British government on its bailouts of RBS and Lloyds during the 2008/9 financial crisis.

That, said Bernstein Research analyst Chiran Barua “will give him a head start as to the idiosyncrasies of the RBS balance sheet and relation to its principal shareholder”.

Original article by Matt Scuffham and Chris Vellacott, Reuters, April 4, 2014.

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