Leeds Building Society has made two key appointments.

Firstly, Paul Riley has been appointed as general manager, treasury. Paul joined the Society in 1992 and started working in the treasury department in 1996, and in 2000 was promoted to head of group treasury.

He said: “The role of the treasury team has become increasingly fundamental to the Society’s ongoing funding activities and has been further underlined by the pressures ongoing since the credit crunch. I am confident my experience of the money markets