Arbuthnot Latham & Co, the UK private bank that has announced a future move to new London headquarters, has appointed former Coutts senior manager Liz Bottomley to the role of head of private banking.  She takes up the post immediately. She fills the position left vacant at the end of 2011 by Richard Dunn.

Bottomley has more than 25 years of experience in the private banking and wealth management sector, most recently at Coutts where she held the role of senior manager/client partner in the international private banking division, the bank said in a statement.

The private bank said that “further senior appointments” will be announced in coming weeks.

James Fleming, who has been chief executive of Arbuthnot Latham since the start of this year, is also a former Coutts top-rank manager. (To view an interview with Fleming on the bank's strategy, click here.)

In August, Arbuthnot Banking Group, of which Arbuthnot Latham is a part, said it is to move to new London headquarters in three years, in a move to satisfy the firm’s wish to return to operating from its own freehold premises, which it hasn’t done since 2006. It is currently located at Ropemaker Street. Its new offices  will be 7-21 Wilson Street.