Leumi UK, the London-based subsidiary of Duns 100 Israeli commercial bank, Bank Leumi, has hired NatWest director Chris Stallard as a relationship manager to support the lending ambitions of its property finance desk. 

Stallard brings 20 years’ banking experience – over a decade of which has been spent advising on real estate lending. At NatWest he was responsible for real estate finance covering bilateral, club and syndicated lending across various sub-sectors of the property market, and his extensive experience and wide knowledge of the market will be pivotal in growing the property finance desk’s lending book and expanding its client base.

Peter Clayton, head of property finance at Leumi UK, says: “Chris will be a great asset to us in the property finance team, helping us continue to grow our lending book by actively targeting new financing opportunities. His twenty-year career has demonstrated a commitment to relationship-driven finance, a principle that Leumi UK holds at its core.”

Stallard adds: “It’s an exciting time to be joining Leumi UK, as the company looks back on a particularly successful year of property lending. I look forward to helping achieve the ambitious growth plans for the coming year by leveraging the sector-specific expertise developed throughout my career in real estate lending.”