RBC has ap­point­ed Marc Jar­dine as man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of RBC Roy­al Bank (Trinidad & To­ba­go).

In a news re­lease yes­ter­day, RBC said this news was an­nounced by Chris Dug­gan, head of Caribbean Bank­ing.

Jar­dine will re­place cur­rent man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, Richard Down­ie, who an­nounced that he will re­tire lat­er this year.

Jar­dine is cur­rent­ly RBC’s vice pres­i­dent of busi­ness bank­ing in T&T. As man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, he will lead and over­see the over­all op­er­a­tions and busi­ness strat­e­gy for RBC Trinidad & To­ba­go.

The banker took on the ad­di­tion­al du­ty of man­ag­ing di­rec­tor ef­fec­tive Sep­tem­ber 2, 2024, the re­lease stat­ed.

He is cur­rent­ly a di­rec­tor of RBC Roy­al Bank (Trinidad & To­ba­go) and sits on the board of RBC Mer­chant Bank (Caribbean).

“Marc in­spires con­fi­dence in the clients he serves,” said Dug­gan. “I am pos­i­tive that with his lead­er­ship and in­dus­try ex­pe­ri­ences com­bined with his net­work and knowl­edge of the mar­ket, he will serve the Trinidad & To­ba­go mar­ket with pro­fes­sion­al­ism and in­tegri­ty and in­spire an en­gaged Team RBC.”

Jar­dine first joined RBC in 2004 as a risk man­ag­er at RBC Mer­chant Bank. In 2017 he con­tin­ued his ca­reer out­side the bank but re­joined RBC in 2020 as VP Cor­po­rate Bank­ing, Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness.

He has more than 20 years of fi­nan­cial ser­vices ex­pe­ri­ence and is a sea­soned cor­po­rate bank­ing ex­ec­u­tive who has held sev­er­al se­nior roles in cor­po­rate fi­nance, risk man­age­ment, orig­i­na­tion, and fi­nan­cial analy­sis, both lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

Jar­dine is al­so head of the Caribbean bank’s En­vi­ron­men­tal, So­cial and Gov­er­nance (ESG) com­mit­tee.