Wall Street heavyweights BlackRock and Goldman Sachs cut jobs
The cuts amount to around 6.5% of the total staff headcount at Goldman and less than 3% at BlackRock.
Movers and Shakers
PayQuicker appoints Nazuk Jain to lead product development
Jain will build out the firm’s product team and manage its expanding product roadmap.
Allied Payment Network appoints Kathi Klawitter as COO
Kathi Klawitter joins Allied Payment Network from banking and payments tech heavyweight Fiserv.
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Funding Circle appoints Steve Allocca as US managing director
Prior to Funding Circle, Allocca was chief operating officer (COO) at small business banking provider BlueVine.
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Blockchain compliance firm Securrency appoints Nadine Chakar CEO
Nadine Chakar replaces Sucurrency founder and CEO Dan Doney, who moves to the CTO role.
Challenger bank N26 sees changes in leadership structure
N26’s CFO and interim COO Jan Kemper has jointly agreed with the bank to step down from his role.
The Clearing House appoints David Watson as CEO
Watson joins The Clearing House from Swift, and will take up the new role from 1 February 2023.
Swift names Stephen Grainger as chief executive for Americas and UK
Grainger brings 20 years of banking and payments experience to his new role.
Path Solutions founder Mohammed Kateeb to leave firm
Path Solutions founder and CEO Mohammed Kateeb is to leave the firm after managing its sale to Azentio Software in 2021.
Coinbase lands virtual asset provider licence from Central Bank of Ireland
Coinbase’s Ireland operations will also now be headed up by Cormac Dinan, its new country director.
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Coastal Community Bank hires Barb MacLean as head of tech
MacLean brings to the role more than two decades of experience, having spent over 21 years at Celero Solutions.
Monex Europe hires Tim Philip as global operations director
Prior to joining Monex, Philip spent seven years as global chief operating officer at fintech firm Salary Finance.
Workday appoints Sequoia Capital’s Carl Eschenbach as co-CEO
After January 2024, it is expected that Eschenbach will take up sole CEO responsibilities.
ConnexPay hires payments “titan” Blair Jeffery as COO
Jeffery will lead the company’s core strategic and operational teams.
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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.
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.
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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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Swift appoints Max Mamondez as chief financial officer
Mamondez, who joins from the London Stock Exchange Group, will serve on Swift’s executive committee.
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Coremont names Balaji Krishnamurthy as new CTO
Krishnamurthy most recently served as a managing director at JP Morgan Chase.
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HSBC names Georges Elhedery as new group CFO
Elhedery will take on his new role from 1 January 2023, replacing Ewen Stevenson.
