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Boardroom shakeup at RBS

by AccountancyAge.com

27 Aug 2008

Britain’s second biggest bank, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), has appointed three non-executive directors in an effort to address shareholder concerns following its £12bn rights issue.

Stephen Hester, British Land chief executive; Arthur Ryan, former Prudential Financial of the US chairman of; and John McFarlane, a former Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) chief executive, will all join the bank's board as non-executives from the start of October, The Daily Telegraph reports.

‘Their experience in financial services will be of great benefit to RBS given the increasingly diversified and international nature of our powerful banking franchise,’ Sir Tom McKillop, RBS chairman, said.

The bank also announcded the stepping down of part-time directors Lawrence Fish and Charles Koch at the company's annual meeting next April.

Further reading:

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