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Arbuthnot Latham Brings Over Two Former Coutts Bankers For New Offering
The UK bank, part of the listed Arbuthnot group, has added two former Coutts bankers to a new business line.
Arbuthnot Latham, the UK-based private bank, has appointed former Coutts senior bankers Rob Stapledon and Michele Coomber to its new commercial banking business specialising in and focusing on the media sector.
The duo take up their roles immediately, the bank said in a statement.
The hires are the “first of a number of hires to this new area of Arbuthnot Latham’s business and will augment the bank’s existing offerings of private banking, wealth planning and investment management,” the firm said.
Within the commercial banking business, the new hires will work closely with the bank’s existing media team headed up by Richard Kay.
Stapleton joins from Coutts where he was an executive director
specialising in commercial banking relationship management of a
portfolio of media clients with particular focus on the
independent television production, television commercial
production, advertising and talent management sectors. Prior to
Coutts, he held a number of roles with Barclays, including
latterly media banking manager with Barclays’ media team.
Coomber also has worked at Coutts, where she was an associate
director in the media banking team managing a portfolio of media
clients with a particular focus on the television production,
television commercial production, advertising, design and talent
management sectors. Prior to this, Coomber held a number of roles
with NatWest Bank in Kent.
Arbuthnot Latham’s own chief executive, James Fleming, is a former senior executive at Coutts.