The Association for Financial Markets in Europe has appointed a regulatory specialist to lead its new Frankfurt office, as its members prepare to relocate to the German city ahead of the UK's exit from the European Union.

Jacqueline Mills will take on her new role from October before permanently relocating to Frankfurt from January 1 2018, the banking lobby group said in a statement. She has spent the last three years as a London-based director in AFME's prudential regulation practice.