Contis Group, a U.K.-based alternative payments and banking services provider, appointed Fiona Wilkinson to its board as an independent, non-executive director. Contis also hired Jason Ollivier to a newly created executive role, chief disruption officer.
Global payment services provider Currencycloud has appointed Ed Addario chief technical officer.
Discover Bank has been named one of the Best Banks of 2017 as part of the fifth annual banking survey by GOBankingRates, a personal finance Website.
Finicity, a provider of real-time financial data aggregation and information, has expanded its executive team with the hire of Tim Laukka to the position of chief financial officer.
Raphaels Bank has appointed Janet Johnston head of payment services.
RentMoola Payment Solutions Inc., an online global payment network for the rental and condo fee business, has named David Borecky to its board of directors.
Andrew Buckley has been named executive vice president, global prepaid solutions at Mastercard.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has appointed Green Dot Corp. founder and CEO Steve Streit to its Los Angeles Branch board of directors for a three-year term, beginning Jan. 1, 2017.
Airtel Payments Bank has appointed Dhiraj Sharda as its new chief digital officer ahead of the full launch of the digital banking service throughout India
E-money and payment solutions provider Contis Group has named Neil Delaney as chief commercial officer.
Jay Lerner has been sworn in as the inspector general of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
GlobalPlatform, an association which standardizes the management of applications on secure chip technology, has announced its board of directors for fiscal year 2017.
Mastercard has announced three new leadership appointments for its global products and solutions team in Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore.
Corey Besaw has been appointed senior vice president of innovation for Ubiquity Global Services, a multinational services organization offering solutions for the financial services and payments space.
Ahead of what could be some big changes for the CFPB during the incoming Trump administration, the agency has announced new appointments to several leadership positions.
President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Jay Clayton to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). A partner with law firm Sullivan & Cromwell specializing in mergers and securities offerings, Clayton has advised on many major investment banking deals, including the record-breaking IPO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba in 2014.
Anders la Cour, co-founder and CEO of cross-border payments specialist Saxo Payments, has been appointed to the Emerging Payments Association (EPA) advisory board for 2017.
The general assembly of the European Payments Council (EPC), a representative body of European payment service providers, has re-elected Javier Santamaría as its chairman, effective immediately and running for the next two years.
John Incandela has been named president and CEO for the U.S. operations of Pango, a provider of mobile payment services for parking, transit, ride-hailing and other urban services.
Cross-border payments network and banking consortium PayCommerce has opened new offices in Dubai and Ontario, Canada.
Posera Ltd., a provider of software solutions for the hospitality industry, has appointed Tom McCole to the company’s board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2017.
Payments and fintech recruiting firm R&P Group has promoted Ian Horsted to the role of senior vice president, recruiting, sales practice executive.
TSYS has announced several leadership changes and a restructuring of its business divisions.
Ruth Prior, currently deputy CFO at global payment processor and technology provider Worldpay, will become the company’s first chief operating officer.
Steve Pruitt has taken on the role of director of new business development for the Americhip Gift Card Group, a provider of print, specialty packaging, shopper marketing and gift card programs.
Jo Kenrick has been named an independent director on the board of Bacs Payment Schemes Ltd., the network behind the clearing and settlement of U.K. automated payment methods, direct debit and Bacs direct credit, as well as the Current Account Switch Service and the Cash Isa Transfer Service.
Deutsche Bank has made two leadership appointments to its fintech innovation team. Elly Hardwick will become head of innovation for the bank, while Philip Milne has been named chief technology officer (CTO) for innovation.
GlobalPlatform, an industry body which standardizes the management of applications on secure chip technologies, has launched a China Task Force to give Chinese members and all GlobalPlatform members with business interests in China a dedicated platform to identify and agree on requirements from the region and work directly with Chinese industry and standards associations.
Blockchain-based financial settlement solutions provider Ripple has named Miguel Vias as head of XRP markets.
Cloud-based m-POS solutions provider ShopKeep has appointed Crystal Caligiuri as the company’s new senior vice president of operations and customer care.
BNY Mellon’s treasury services business has created a global innovation group and appointed Christopher Mager to lead it.
Nasir Zubairi has been named CEO of the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT), a new public-private initiative aimed at advancing Luxembourg’s fintech and financial services industry.
San Francisco-based personal finance company NerdWallet has named Tapan Bhat as its first chief product officer.
Online payment service provider PayU has appointed Matthias Setzer as its global chief commercial officer.
The Prepaid International Forum (PIF) has announced that Mastercard and Neopay have become benefactors of the 10-year-old prepaid financial services trade association.
Stockholm-based payments provider Trustly has hired Ulrica Falkenberg as head of people operations, where she will be tasked with supporting the company’s growth and doubling the staff from 130 to 250 in the next year.
Kathleen Campbell, quality manager for card marketing and production firm Arroweye Solutions, has passed the International Card Manufacturers Associations’ (ICMA) ACE-P certification. Campbell joins Marce Rose, Arroweye’s operations manager, who recently received both the ACE-P and ACE-M certifications.
Purchasing intelligence and marketing firm Cardlytics has named Peter Gleason as the company’s new president of international operations.
Private equity firm Finstar Financial has appointed Mark Ruddock to oversee a new corporate venture group that will look for opportunities in the fintech space.
Danielle Piro has joined the Paybefore team as business development manager.
