Hotel finance veteran Peter Anscomb has resigned from Royal Bank of Scotland after more than a decade.
The head of hotel finance in the bank’s corporate and institutional banking division, who joined RBS through its March 2000 acquisition of NatWest, will officially leave on 12 September.
Market sources said that Anscomb was mulling over opportunities in the hotel sector, but was unlikely to be joining a rival lender.
RBS is currently looking for a replacement for Anscomb, who has worked as senior corporate director for the bank since 2002.
This week it also emerged that RBS had promoted Paul Sullivan to succeed Stephen Eighteen as head of non-core real estate when he leaves the bank in the final quarter of this year.
Sullivan is currently head of leveraged and structured finance in RBS’s non-core division.
In the new role he will report to Rory Cullinan, head of RBS’s multi-sector non-core division.
Eighteen, who has been with the bank for 12 years, has been instrumental in managing RBS’s real estate deleveraging, which began in 2009.
His team has reduced the non-core real estate book by £16.5bn to £30.4bn in two-and-a-quarter years through loan maturities, restructurings, enforcements and loan sales.
RBS declined to comment; Anscomb could not be reached.
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