Banque Havilland, the Luxembourg-headquartered, family-owned private bank, has appointed Tina Brunetti as group head of compliance, continuing a run of senior hires this year.

Brunetti joins from Lloyds Private Bank in Luxembourg, where she had overseen the bank’s compliance and risk functions, including IT security and internal controls.

In her new Luxembourg-based role she will oversee Banque Havilland’s compliance activities across its three offices in Luxembourg, London and Monaco, reporting directly to the executive committee.

Last month Banque Havilland appointed Oliver Selwyn as a director of private banking in London, recruiting him from Citi Private Bank’s UK emerging ultra high net worth team. In February, James Powell joined as private banking director, also in London, having previously worked for Barclays Wealth and Investment Management.

Banque Havilland’s London branch opened at the start of this year, following on from the Monaco launch in early 2012. Launched in 2009, the bank is owned by the Rowland family, the patriarch of which is property tycoon David Rowland.

Initially, the family looked into applying for a bank licence in Switzerland (a notoriously onerous and expensive process) but eventually took the option of acquiring the banking licence, infrastructure and assets of the former Kaupthing Bank Luxembourg.

Banque Havilland offers selected clients with a corresponding risk appetite the opportunity to co-invest with the Rowland family, and the bank sees this as one of its key differentiators. The family connection is also evident in the running of the bank as seven of Rowland’s eight children are involved in its management. He himself only serves as the bank’s honorary president, however.

To read an interview with this publication in which Venetia Lean, Bank Havilland’s chief operating officer, outlines her bank’s approach to wooing the UHNW segment, click here.