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has hired Claire
Calmejane from Lloyds
Banking Group as its
chief innovation officer,
tasked with leading
digital innovation and
automation efforts.
Calmejane will take up
the role on September
3 and will report to
CEO Frederic Oudea.
Calmejane was mostrecently risk
transformation director
at Lloyds. She is an IT
engineer who began
her career in 2006 at
Capgemini Consulting
and joined Lloyds in- She is a member
of the World Economic
Forum’s “Future of AI
and financial services
automation” project.
Bruce Fletcher has
joined ROYAL BANK
OF SCOTLAND from
HSBC as chief risk
officer, following the
planned departure of
David Stephen.
Fletcher, 58, is CRO for
HSBC’s global retail
banking and wealth
management business
and was previously
CRO of its Europeanbanking arm and its
UK banking unit. He
previously spent 17
years at Citigroup,
including as senior
credit officer, after
starting his career at
Irving Trust Bank in
New York. Stephen is
moving to Australia’s
Westpac to head its
risk operations after a
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