Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has appointed Carole Berndt, formerly global head of transaction services for Royal Bank of Scotland in the UK, to a similar role. She will be based in Hong Kong.

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has appointed Carole Berndt, formerly global head of transaction services for Royal Bank of Scotland in the UK, to a similar role. She will be based in Hong Kong.

Berndt has held her UK-based role at RBS since October 2013. Prior to this, she was head of global transaction services for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, ANZ said in a statement late last week. An Australian, Berndt has also worked at Citigroup in New York and Hong Kong.

She will start her new role in May. During the interim period, Alan Huse will hold the role.