The UK wealth management COO of Germany's largest bank has assumed leadership of its “Know Your Client” initiatives.

Deutsche Bank has appointed compliance executive Saleha Bilal as chief operating officer of its UK wealth management arm, replacing Lindsay Nicholls-Smith who will take charge of the lender's “Know-Your-Client” (KYC) screening globally.

Nicholls-Smith, who joined Deutsche in 2013, currently oversees wealth management operations in the UK and southern Europe. She previously spent four years at Lloyds Banking Group. In this newly-created, global role, she will be based in London.

Her successor, Bilal, also based in London, has been head of compliance for the bank's UK wealth management business since 2012, according to her LinkedIn profile. Before joining the German lender, she worked in compliance advisory at Barclays Wealth.

In other high-level moves at Deutsche Bank, asset management head Quentin Price stepped down earlier this month. In May, the bank welcomed back Patrick Campion, who had been running HSBC's US private bank, as head of wealth management for the Americas, and, in April, Pamela Root became global head of compliance and group chief compliance officer.