SENIOR Scottish banking executive Archie Kane is returning to financial services as governor of part-nationalised Bank of Ireland just a year after exiting Lloyds Banking Group.
Mr Kane sat on the board of 41% state-owned Lloyds as executive director for insurance and Scotland until taking retirement in a shake-up by incoming chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio in March 2011.
His appointment will see him oversee another bank with a state investor, in an economy that was even harder hit by the financial crisis than the UK having taken an international bailout in 2010.
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