The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed Rohit Sawhney as head of global transaction services, Asia-Pacific. Based in Singapore, he reports to Carole Berndt, head of global transaction services (GTS) and Pierre Ferland, head of corporate and institutional banking (CIB), Asia-Pacific.

He joins GTS’s senior leadership team as well as CIB’s Asia-Pacific management committee. Sawhney, who has over 25 years banking experience, was most recently the Asia-Pacific head of RBS’s GTS financial institutions and non-bank financial institutions business as well as the chief administrative officer (CAO) for GTS APAC. He was also the country head for RBS GTS India from 2008-2012.

Over the past two years, RBS’s GTS business in Asia-Pacific has won a significant number of industry awards for regional and country client solutions, as well as in-country bank capabilities.