TD Bank Group announced on 10 September 2025 that it has made a series of senior executive appointments, naming Taylan Turan as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and Simon Fish as Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, with both executives joining the bank in September 2025.
Fish was first to join, taking up the General Counsel position on 15 September 2025. Turan followed with a start date of 29 September 2025 as Chief Operating Officer.
NEW LEADERS FOR OPERATIONS AND LEGAL
The COO post is a new role in which, TD said, Turan will reduce complexity to speed up execution, re-engineer key operations to enhance efficiency and establish programmes to elevate the client experience. He joins from HSBC, where he was global CEO of retail banking, after earlier roles at Barclays and Citigroup.
Fish, who was previously general counsel at another Canadian bank for 13 years, succeeds Jane Langford, who is leaving TD at year-end.
The announcement also included a third appointment: Paul Whitehead was named Executive Vice President, Global Head of Client and Colleague Experience and Marketing, with a start date of 1 December 2025.
US SETTLEMENT AND REPORTING LINES
TD Bank Group's US anti-money laundering settlement required the bank to accept restrictions on the growth of its US retail banking assets and to commit to a programme of remediation.
The bank confirmed the appointments in a statement published through its corporate news platform. Turan and Fish report to Group President and Chief Executive Officer Raymond Chun, while Whitehead reports to Turan.
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