BNY Mellon, the New York-listed investment management giant, has bolstered its wholesale distribution team in the UK with three appointments.

Russell Bignall joins this month as head of national network and bank distribution, after having spent the previous 10 years at Standard Life, where his roles have included heading the UK distribution team responsible for bank and wealth manager segments and specialist investment sales.

Anita Rennie also joins this month as head of BNY Mellon's advisory telephone sales team. She was latterly at Schroders where she worked for 12 years as a business analyst and project manager for sales and marketing in London and Asia before moving into the sales team.

Adrian Gough will join the firm's discretionary team next month. He was most recently head of investment management at RSM Tenon, where he was responsible for over £3 billion ($4.8 billion) of client assets.

All three will report to Scott Goodsir, managing director, head of UK wholesale at BNY Mellon. “We have carefully considered how the introduction of [the] Retail Distribution Review will impact our industry and company and what the landscape of the advisory and discretionary market will look like over the coming years. We believe it is very clear that advisors will need more support from the major distributors," said Goodsir.