UK lender RBS appoints Alison Rose as chief executive

The state-owned lender will also become the only company in the FTSE 100 index with women in both its top two executive positions, following Katie Murray’s appointment as chief financial officer last year. Howard Davies, RBS chairman, said: “I am delighted that we have appointed Alison as our new CEO. Ms Rose, who currently leads RBS’s commercial and private banking business, had long been seen as the favourite to succeed Mr McEwan, particularly after she was made deputy head of the holding company that owns most of RBS’s businesses last year.