ABN AMRO has hired Rutger Schellens as head of financial institutions and real estate within the bank's large corporates & merchant banking business. Schellens joins from Rabobank International, where he was a member of the managing board and responsible for Global Financial Markets and the Europe region. The bank has also hired Jaap Kalverkamp as country executive and head of LC&MB in the USA. Kalverkamp was previously head of Financial Institutions and Real Estate.