James Garvey has ticked off a fairly extensivelist of banks in his two-and-a-half-decade career in the financial sector. Native to Ireland, he began work with Citicorp in 1987, then moved to UBS, West LB and Goldman Sachs before pitching up at Lloyd’s Banking Group in 2009 as head of capital markets and portfolio management.
In the six years since then, Lloyds has had to cut its cloth to quite a considerable degree. Following a bailout from the UK government and a merger with fellow UK bank HBOS, it has stepped back from global aspirations, and instead focused on UK markets, and UK clients.
