Webster Financial Corporation, the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A., has appointed Daniel Bley as executive vice president and chief risk officer. In this capacity, he has overall responsibility for credit, compliance and operating risk, as well as administrative responsibility for internal audit.

Bley joins Webster Financial from ABN Amro and Royal Bank of Scotland, which acquired ABN Amro in 2009. At RBS, Bley was a managing director in their Financial Institutions Credit group. In this role, he led a team of senior credit officers covering global exposures to North American financial institutions.

Previously, from 2002 through 2008, he was group senior vice president, head of Financial Institutions and Trading Credit Risk Management at ABN Amro, where he was responsible for creating a credit risk management infrastructure to support the North American Financial Institutions and Global Markets business units.

Bley reports to Senior Executive Vice President and CFO, Jerry Plush.