A high-profile Kleinwort Hambros banker is set to leave the firm after nine years, with his successor named, thewealthnet can reveal.

Paul Kearney, head of private banking for the Société Générale-owned Kleinwort Hambros (KH), has resigned of his own accord to seek other opportunities outside the bank.

Mr Kearney was private banking head as well as commercial director and was responsible for defining the commercial proposition and strategic direction of the private banking business across the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar.