13th November 2018 – Barclays has further enhanced its Transaction Banking leadership team with the hire of Karen Braithwaite into a newly created role as Corporate Banking Head of Payments and Cash Management.
Karen joins Barclays from BNY Mellon, where she was most recently the Global Head of Product Management for Treasury Services, following a range of senior roles across sales, marketing, servicing, operations, product and client management.
The new position has been established to lead the expansion of Corporate Banking’s business across payments, transactional FX and liquidity. She will have responsibility for product specialist origination, implementation and management.
Dan Roberts, Head of Transaction Banking, said: “I am delighted to welcome Karen to Barclays. She brings a huge breadth and depth of transaction banking experience to the bank. We are continuing to strengthen talent in the business which, alongside our continuing significant investment in our digital capabilities and our European platform, will help our Transaction Banking franchise deliver improved services to our clients in the UK and globally.”
