RBS Hires Higgins as Head of European Fixed-Income Trading

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Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Britain’s biggest publicly owned lender, hired former Nomura Holdings Inc. executive Kieran Higgins as head of fixed-income trading for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The 41-year-old will take up the job in London immediately and report to Michael Lyublinsky, head of global trading, and Peter Nielsen, co-head of the markets unit, Edinburgh-based RBS said in a statement today. Higgins, who left Nomura last year, didn’t immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.