The Edinburgh-based operation of the £3 billion Green Investment Bank will include key "transactional" or deal-making personnel as well as administrators and asset managers, its chairman has said.

Lord Smith of Kelvin, who was appointed to head the bank's board last month, told the Sunday Herald that, contrary to previous announcements, the market-facing operation of the GIB would not be exclusively based in London.

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