UK - Bank of Ireland appoints Adrian Sainsbury as head of Global Specialised Finance

Bank of Ireland has appointed Adrian Sainsbury as Head of Global Specialised Finance. Sainsbury will be based in London and will have responsibility for the Bank’s specialised lending and UK corporate activities including asset based lending, media finance, healthcare, shipping and general UK Corporate business. He joins Bank of Ireland from Royal Bank of Scotland where he was managing director of Domestic Banking Services within UK Corporate Banking and a member of the UK Corporate Banking Board. Prior to that Sainsbury was head of the Business Banking Debt Products Team at Barclays. During 2005-6 he held the position of chairman of the Factors & Discounters Association, the industry body for invoice finance and asset based lending markets in the UK and Ireland.