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Friday, March 15, 1974
NEW BANKING COMMISSIONER APPOINTED
Mr. Anthony Ockenden has been appointed Commissioner of Banking.
He will succeed Mr. James Paterson.
Fr. Paterson is returning to London at the end of this month after
serving as Commissioner of Banking for nearly three years. Prior to that
he served as Exchange Controller.
Mr. Ockenden was seconded to the government from the Bank of
England a year ago and has since been working in the Econonic Branch of the
Secretariat as Principal Assistant Economic Secretary with responsibilities
for foreign exchange and monetary matters.
He is 46 and has served with the Bank of England in London since
1944, with the exception of a three year period from 1964 when he was seconded
to Sierra Leone as the first General Manager of the central bank there.
The new Principal Assistant Economic Secretary will be Ir. J.I.
Mutch who arrived in Hong Kong recently, also on secondment from the Bank of
England.
Aged 46, Mr. Mutch has spent many years in the Economic Intelligence
Department of the Bank of England. From 1968-1970 he was seconded to HM
Treasury where he worked in the Overseas Finance Division.
loto to Editors:
Copies of Mr. Ockenden's photograph are based
for collection.
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