UK paytech Total Processing hires CCO and head of product to drive growth
Simon King joined as CCO in September while Aden Davies joins as head of product.
Movers and Shakers
Mark Brant joins NatWest as chief payments officer
Brant will take up his new role at NatWest on 16 January 2023.
PayU appoints new head of data, Keren Ben Zvi
PayU is aiming to provide merchants with more detailed customer insights to support business growth.
Barclays makes changes to group executive committee as COO steps down
Alistair Currie is set to take over from Mark Ashton-Rigby as the bank’s new group COO.
Broadridge names Martin Koopman as new chief product officer
In his new role, Koopman will head up the product management team across all of Broadridge’s business units.
Crypto platform Zumo hires first chief data and analytics officer
Vicky Byrom joins Zumo from paytech firm Modulr.
The Bank of London names former Metro Bank exec Marc Jenkins as new UK CFO
Jenkins will be responsible for “all accounting, finance and corporate treasury” at the bank.
Broadridge’s LTX appoints Jim Kwiatkowski as CEO
Jim Toffey, CEO and co-founder of LTX, will transition to the role of chairman of the board.
Wealth Wizards names Ben Hampton as new chief executive
Hampton will take up the role on 1 January 2023, succeeding founder Andrew Firth.
PagoNxt names Amazon VP of finance Olatz Urroz as new CFO
Urroz, who has worked at Amazon since 2019, will start her new role in December.
UK fintech start-up Paytrix appoints David Sola as new CFO
Sola has previously served as a managing director at UBS, Houlihan Lokey and Softbank Europe.
Conversational AI firm Boost.ai hires Jerry Haywood as new CEO
Haywood joins from LivePerson and succeeds Boost.ai founder and current CEO Lars Ropeid Selsås.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 25 November 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Danish fintech Pleo hires Meri Williams as new CTO
Williams was formerly CTO at Monzo where they helped scale the engineering and data team by 500%.
UK wealthtech Wealthify makes three senior appointments
Wealthify has announced the appointments of three women on its senior leadership team.
FIS reportedly looking to cut thousands of jobs under new CEO
Bloomberg reports that the cuts to the workforce are expected to be staggered.
Pipe seeks veteran CEO amid leadership shake-up
Pipe’s three co-founders are all set to move into new positions at the firm.
Nationwide Building Society appoints new COO, Suresh Viswanathan
Nationwide says it is moving to “the next chapter in its digital ambitions” with Viswanathan’s appointment.
The Bank of London hires new group CTO and group CISO, Phil Knight
Knight will oversee the firm’s technology, IT operations and information security.
Corporate payments fintech Onbe hires new CTO, CFO to drive growth
Brent Coles joins as chief financial officer while Suresh Kumar is Onbe’s new chief technology officer.
UK challenger Tandem appoints new CFO and CRO to bolster its leadership team
David McCarthy has been named as the firm’s new CFO with Wahid Ali joining as CRO.
Credit card financial inclusion fintech Mercury hires Jason Whiting as CFO
Whiting will join Mercury Financial from Barclays where he served as head of strategy for the Americas.
Visa appoints Ryan McInerney as new CEO
From February 2023, current CEO Alfred Kelly will become executive chairman of the board.
Banque Saudi Fransi digital head Grant Niven departs
Niven was responsible for developing and executing the bank’s company-wide “digital vision”.
Delio appoints former BNY Mellon exec Paul Burleton as COO
At Delio, Burleton will help shape the fintech’s operating model as it looks to expand internationally.
Tech leadership change at US Bank
Jeff von Gillern, US Bank’s vice chair of technology and operations services, will retire next year.
Investment app Freetrade appoints Shahid Naveed as CTO
Naveed has 20+ years of experience in the tech space and joins from Auction Technology Group.
Divido appoints new chief product officer, Gareth Lloyd-Owen
Lloyd-Owen joins from home lending platform Roostify, where he was most recently VP of product.
Myles O’Grady named new CEO at Bank of Ireland
O’Grady succeeds Gavin Kelly, who was appointed as interim CEO in September this year.
Sohar International’s chief transformation officer Ewan MacLeod resigns
MacLeod joined the bank in February 2020 following a three-year stint at Nordea.
Trading and investment fintech Saxo appoints Simon Camilleri as COO
Camilleri brings “significant expertise and a wealth of front-office experience” to his new role.
Travel BNPL fintech Fly Now Pay Later hires Georgios Gionis as CPO
AT FNPL, Gionis will be tasked with expanding the product offering at the firm, building out its R&D arm.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 11 November 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology launches to support UK fintech
The CFIT will be chaired by Charlotte Crosswell, a former CEO of both Innovate Finance and Nasdaq NLX.
ACI Worldwide appoints interim CEO as Odilon Almeida departs
Thomas Warsop, former non-executive chair of ACI’s board of directors, has been named interim CEO.
Mangopay names Ronen Benchetrit as new CTO
Mangopay’s CEO says Benchetrit’s appointment will be “game changing” for the company’s growth.
DTCC hires new chief security officer, Nashira Spencer
Spencer most recently served as chief technology officer (CTO) at Anywhere Real Estate (formerly Realogy).
Low-code platform Genesis Global hires Tej Sidhu as CTO
Sidhu will be responsible for the firm’s tech strategy, leading more than 200 developers and technologists.
Lendtech Ezra appoints Erwan Gelebart as new CEO
Gelebart has spent the past 14 years working for digital financial services firms across Africa and Asia.
RMB Nigeria names Dalu Ajene as new CEO
In his new role, Ajene has been tasked with facilitating greater foreign capital flows.
