BNY Mellon has appointed Rebecca Ryan as head of the private bank’s life insurance lending group – a newly-created role in which she will report to Elizabeth Engel, head of lending for BNY Mellon Wealth Management Private Bank.

BNY Mellon has appointed Rebecca Ryan as head of the private bank’s life insurance lending group – a newly-created role in which she will report to Elizabeth Engel, head of lending for BNY Mellon Wealth Management Private Bank.

Ryan joins BNY Mellon Wealth Management in Chicago, IL, as part of the firm’s strategic expansion which has seen the addition of over a dozen new private bankers, lenders and mortgage officers across the US.

Ryan previously worked at Northern Trust for 14 years - most recently as national director of premium finance and senior relationship manager. Before that, she was a private and commercial banker at Citibank.   

As of March 31, 2014, BNY Mellon had $27.9 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $1.6 trillion in assets under management.