TORONTO, Nov 29 (Reuters) - TD Bank has hired

Georgia Stavridis from Royal Bank of Canada ( RY ) to become a

vice president in financial crimes risk management, a newly

created role, three sources told Reuters.

She was appointed chief compliance officer for HSBC Bank

Canada in 2020 and moved to RBC earlier this year after it

acquired HSBC's ( HSBC ) domestic unit for $10 billion.

Stavridis will be tasked with strategy, performance and

results for the financial intelligence unit in Canada.

In October, TD Bank became the largest bank in U.S. history

to plead guilty to violating a federal law aimed at preventing

money laundering, and agreed to pay over $3 billion in penalties

to resolve the charges.

As a part of the process to fix its compliance and risk

program, TD hired a number of senior executives including Herb

Mazariegos, its chief global anti-money-laundering officer from

BMO, senior U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations and

U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials, Marcy Forman and

Jacqueline Sanjuas from Citi, and several others.

In 2013, HSBC Holdings Plc ( HSBC ) was fined $1.92 billion

by federal and state investigators in the U.S. on charges it

flouted rules designed to stop money laundering and thwart

transactions with countries under U.S. sanctions.

Several HSBC ( HSBC ) executives have left RBC since a six-month

guarantee to keep them expired in September.