UBS GroupAG named Chris Gibson-Smith vice chairman of corporate clientsolutions for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Gibson-Smith, based in London, will work with William Barterand David James, co-heads of the group's U.K. investment banking business. Hewill remain chairman of Partnership Assurance Group Plc, which with Just Retirement GroupPlc to form JRP GroupPlc.

Gibson-Smith served as chairman of from2003 to 2015.