Coutts & Co, the UK private banking arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has appointed Jeff Stubberfield as a commercial banker in its media banking team.

In his new London-based role Stubberfield will be working alongside Neil Phelps, head of media banking, and will be focusing on serving clients within the music, TV and entertainment businesses, the firm said in a statement.

Stubberfield joins the firm from Barclays, where he was most recently a relationship director managing a portfolio of media clients across music, TV, talent/booking agencies and publishing. Prior to that, he was a financial planning manager at HSBC, having previously spent four years with HBOS.

Stubberfield specialises in structuring music publishing finance, allowing clients to take advantage of their intellectual property rights to assist their businesses with growth, acquisition and working capital requirements.

In other recent hires, earlier this week Royal Bank of Scotland brought in UBS veteran Rory Tapner as the new chief executive of the group’s wealth division.