Westpac appoints Damien MacRae to lead new BaaS business
Westpac’s BaaS offering was built in partnership with 10X and integrates 30+ various tech services.
Movers and Shakers
South African banking heavyweight Capitec appoints CTO, Andrew Baker
Andrew Baker had a lengthy tech career at Barclays Africa and its successor, Absa.
Fronted appoints new CTO as co-founder Simon Vans-Colina joins Singapore’s BigPay
Fronted’s lead software engineer Jonathan Kim has been promoted to the role of CTO.
UK’s Money and Pensions Service seeks new tech leadership for digital transformation
MaPS is searching for a chief operating officer (COO) and chief digital and information officer.
SME banking provider Tide loses UK CEO
Laurence Krieger has stepped down after five years with the UK-based fintech.
ING’s chief data officer steps down
Aniruddha Paul spent 15 years in various senior roles at ING.
Cross-border payments giant Wise to hire 150 new staff in Singapore
The decision to expand in Singapore follows the opening of a new, larger APAC regional hub in the country.
OpenPayd hires former Worldpay VP Daniel Belda to head up product strategy
Belda spent the best part of five years in senior positions at Worldpay before moving to OpenPayd.
Paysafe builds out digital wallets team with new exec hires from Barclays and Amazon
Rachel McShane joins as digital wallets CFO and Megan Oxman joins as SVP of new product development.
Revolut names Ibrahim Dusi as chief risk officer for Americas
Dusi joins Revolut from US-based lender Happy Money, where he spent eight years.
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Challenger bank Blink appoints Zein Malhas as CEO
Malhas moves from Capital Bank of Jordan, where she was chief digital officer.
Rob Regan joins Hodge as new COO
Regan moves from digital savings, pensions and investment firm Ascentric, where he was CEO.
Al Rajhi Bank Malaysia hires Ikram Khaliq to lead new digital bank offering
ARBM plans to launch its new digital bank this year.
Former Google Cloud product lead Amir Hermelin joins FICO as CTO
At Google, Hermelin was in charge of planning and executing the tech giant’s cloud platform strategy.
Diebold Nixdorf names new president and CEO as Gerrard Schmid steps down
Octavio Marquez is taking over the CEO and president role on 11 March 2022.
Form3 poaches senior Swift exec to drive US expansion
Dave Scola moves from Swift to become Form3’s US chief executive.
FIS names new president, Stephanie Ferris
Ferris joined FIS through its 2019 acquisition of payments software firm Worldpay.
Challenger bank Mox makes two senior tech hires
Mox has a new CIO and a new chief data, security, and innovation officer (CDSIO).
FinTech Australia appoints paytech veteran Andrew Porter as CEO
Porter previously held senior roles at OFX, World First and TransferMate.
Open Banking Implementation Entity appoints first CEO
Henk Van Hulle joins from the Post Office “to provide strategic, financial, and operational leadership”.
Goldman Sachs’ veteran tech head Nash Panchal to take over as MarketAxess CIO
MarketAxess COO says Panchal brings “impressive record” of leading global tech organisations.
Bolt founder Ryan Breslow announces new CEO after Silicon Valley Twitter rant
Breslow has moved to a new role as executive chairman, focusing on funding and acquisitions.
CoinTracker lands unicorn status with $100m Series A round
Users collectively track over $50 billion in crypto assets on CoinTracker.
Worldline plans to expand workforce by 25% with 5,000 new hires
Hires form part of strategy to become go-to paytech in Europe’s payments ecosystem.
Digital bank N26 confirms departure of COO Adrienne Gormley
N26 says Gormley has “played an important role” in scaling its operations division.
BNPL provider Splitit appoints new CEO, Nandan Sheth
Nandan Sheth moves from Fiserv, where he was head of global digital commerce and the firm’s Carat business.
Baton Systems appoints ex-Barclays exec as its first COO
David Ornstein steps into a newly-created role of chief operating officer (COO) at Baton.
Rupifi appoints early investor Rajesh Kamra to lead B2B payments innovation
Rupifi says it’s India’s “first embedded finance company” in the B2B payments space.
Change at the top for Credit Suisse as Horta-Osório resigns as chairman
Horta-Osório resigns after it was found he broke Swiss and UK Covid-19 isolation rules.
BitPay hires payments veteran Jim Lester as first COO
BitPay CEO says appointment of COO was necessary as more payments move to the blockchain.
Regtech ComplyAdvantage reports record year, makes senior hires
Nabeel Vilcassim joins as chief financial officer (CFO) and Oliver Furniss as chief product officer (CPO).
Amanda Mesler appointed chair of Swedish fintech Minna Technologies
The European fintech plans to “hyper-scale” and move into the US and Australia this year.
FDIC chief innovation officer resigns
Sultan Meghji, FDIC’s first chief innovation officer, is leaving just one year into the job.
Trulioo hires product veteran Michael Ramsbacker as its first chief product officer
Ramsbacker will be developing intelligent workflow systems designed to maximise verification rates.
Retail finance platform Divido appoints Todd Latham as CEO
Latham has also held senior positions at American Express and Microsoft.
Matt Collinge joins start-up Sequence as CTO
UK-based start-up Sequence is “creating a new category of software”.
Ebury appoints HSBC innovation head Louise Chan as new COO
Chan is taking on an expanded role, covering operations, product, data and regulatory reporting.
Sydney fintech start-up Cape makes tech and product leadership hires
Julian Guppy joins as CTO and Andrew Fanner as chief product and marketing officer (CPMO).
GPS adds $100m to its latest funding round, appoints new chair
Global Processing Services (GPS) closes its latest funding round at over $400 million.
