A new non-executive director has been appointed to the board of Royal Bank of Scotland International.

Joanna Dentsekvich will be involved in setting the bank’s strategies across the jurisdictions in which RBSI operates.

Those include the Isle of Man.

But the appointment will not affect the Isle of Man Bank, which is owned by the RBS, because it has a separate board.

RBSI says that Jersey-based Ms Dentskevich has extensive financial services experiences in the City and Channel Islands, allowing her to ’provide guidance on the bank’s strategy and business decisions at the highest level’.

Most recently, she has been working as an independent business consultant and non-executive director for a number of funds and corporate institutions in the UK, Jersey and Luxembourg.

The bank says: ’As a non-executive director of the RBS International board, Ms Dentskevich will play a key part in setting the bank’s strategy across jurisdictions in which it operates, providing guidance on the bank’s structure and engaging with key regulators, influencers and customers.’

RBS International is moving to a non-executive-led board structure as a result of the UK banking sector ring-fencing legislation which comes into effect on January 1, 2019.

Under the new UK law, UK banks will have to ring-fence their retail operations to protect a repeat of the problems following the 2008 financial crisis.

UK banks’ Manx operations will fall outside that ring fence.

The Manx Independent recently reported how online services for Manx customers might be affected with the shake-up, although regulators here say that customers shouldn’t lose out in the long term.

Andrew McLaughlin, chief executive of RBS International, said: ’The appointment of Joanna Dentskevich to the RBS International Board supports our new non-executive-led structure, and ensures that the management and control of our bank is through the relevant boards and committees rather than from within our business.

’I am looking forward to working with her moving forward.’

Ms Dentskevich’s appointment follows the appointment of Phillip Brewster as the new RBS International chairman in June.

A spokesman for the bank said that Ms Dentsekvich might visit its Manx offices in the future but there was nothing in the diary.