Public sector lender, Canara Bank has a new appointment for the post of its Chairman and Managing Director in S Raman.

Raman's banking career started with Bank of India in 1974. He has also worked abroad once while working with Bank of India at Jersey (UK) from 1983 to 1987 and another time as Chief Executive of Bank of India's US Operations from June 2005 to October 2008, said a press release.

He has also worked as Executive Director of Union Bank of India in the year October 2008. His duties then included several tints like treasury, corporate credit and transaction banking.

He has worked in several parts of the country like Nagpur, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Bhubaneshwar.

Raman is a post graduate in Economics and a PGDBM as well as Senior Diploma holder in German language apart from CAIIB from the Indian Institute of Bankers and ACIB from the Chartered Institute of Bankers, London.