RBS: Transaction services hires

RBS: Transaction services hires

Published: May 19, 2014

Five new faces join the bank’s London-based GTS team.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has strengthened its global transaction services (GTS) team with five new London-based hires.

Helen Mason joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch as head of bank partnerships. Nick Blake joins as head of sales after seven years at JP Morgan, where he most recently ran multinational corporate sales and treasury services across EMEA. Both report to Carole Berndt, global head of transaction services.

James Waud, another former JP Morgan banker, has been named head of subsidiary clients and sales performance and will report to Blake. Finally, Stuart Lawson and Maha el Dimachki join the GTS Cash Product team as managing directors, coming from Standard Chartered Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, respectively.