Santander hires HSBC’s Rakshit Kapoor as new chief data officer
Kapoor joins after three years at the major international bank.
Movers and Shakers
Biden reshuffles US financial regulators to reign in corporates
Consumer protection fines against financial corporates have declined under Trump.
ADQ’s unnamed neobank nabs new CEO from Emirates NBD
Patel joins the upcoming challenger after leading Emirates NBD’s challenger Liv.
Temenos shakes up executive team with changes at the top
Promotions and hires for the Swiss banking vendor.
Canadian challenger Koho appoints new CTO
Jonathan Klein joins the neobank from Wayfair.
ECB hires Claudia Plattner as new IT director
Plattner is CIO for Deutsche Bahn’s IT provider.
HSBC’s Hang Seng Bank to appoint first female chairman Irene Lee
In the short-term, Lee’s focus is on putting Hong Kong’s economy “back on the road to recovery”.
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iBanFirst appoints Said Layadi as new CTO
Layadi joins after stints at Euronext and Ingenico.
Payment Systems Regulator names Ruth Wandhöfer as new chair
Wandhöfer replaces Stephen Locke at the payments regulator.
NAB poaches outgoing RBS exec Matheson as new COO
Les Matheson returns to Australia after an early career in the country.
UniCredit CEO to step down in 2021
Jean Pierre Mustier calls it quits after butting heads with board.
Alpha Bank appoints new COO in Stefanos Mytilineos
Greece’s second-largest bank shifts things around at the top.
Libra and Facebook exec joins rental insurtech LeaseLock
The fintech removes the need for renters to pay a deposit for a rental property.
Credit Suisse announces António Horta-Osório as new chairman
The outgoing Lloyds executive will join the Swiss bank in April.
Tokyo Stock Exchange CEO steps down after damaging systems failure
Koichiro Miyahara resigns as regulators continue to examine exchange’s closure.
Lloyds pinches new CEO Charlie Nunn from HSBC
Nunn steps into new shoes at a chaotic time for any bank.
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Founder and CTO of Malauzai leaves Finastra
Daniel Piangerelli departs two years after Finastra acquisition.
Goldman’s former CIO becomes chairman of Israeli fintech The Floor
“I believe The Floor has transformative potential to impact the financial services industry.”
New senior hires at core banking tech vendor 10x Future Technologies
Dr Leda Glyptis is new chief client officer and Mark Holt is chief product & engineering officer.
Monzo replaces chief risk officer Lisa Nowell
Nowell leaves after just over a year in her position.
HSBC Private Banking loses global innovation head Diana Biggs
Biggs steps down from her role after three and a half years at HSBC.
Coconut searching for new CTO
Allistair Crossley leaves after three and a half years at the fintech.
Onfido appoints new chief executive as Husayn Kassai steps down
Mike Tuchen steps into the CEO role at the fintech.
OakNorth hires new CMO and VP of customer success
The firm has placed both women in its executive leadership team.
Tink appoints SimCorp CEO Holse as new chairman
Holse says Tink is “leading the charge” in open banking across Europe.
Trulioo hires Leigh Ramsden as new CFO
Former Absolute Software man joins up with Trulioo next week.
Ziglu hires Monzo’s James Sullivan as chief legal officer
James Sullivan worked as Monzo’s head of legal for one year and nine months.
FinTech Wales appoints IBM vet Sarah Williams-Gardener as CEO
Williams-Gardener is also a founding member of Starling Bank.
TrueLayer nabs former Amazon and AmEx exec as new CPO
Ossama Soliman joins TruLayer as its new chief product officer.
GPS fills out executive team with handful of new C-level hires
Richard Hodgson, Shaun Puckrin, and Jerome Gudgeon join the payments firm.
Temenos appoints former SAS EVP as new European president
David Macdonald joins Temenos after 19 years at SAS.
UK Finance appoints David Postings as new CEO
Postings is an industry veteran, spending 25 years at Barclays and three at Lloyds.
Temenos hires Roger Klantschi as EVP for Americas
Former Infosys veteran joins Temenos to build on US drive.
Barclays appoints Taalib Shaah as new group CRO
Shaah joins from the bank’s international division.
ING consolidates innovation arms into ING Neo, Legrand to step down
ING’s Annerie Vreugdenhil is set to head up ING Neo come January 2021.
N26 snaps up ex-Dropbox exec Adrienne Gormley as new COO
New COO Gormley will head up N26’s global customer service.
PayTech Awards 2020 now on YouTube: celebrity host, comedy stand-up, winners and more!
Watch Zoe Lyons perform her stand-up and unveil the winning projects, companies and people of PayTech Awards 2020.
Nymbus undergoes management shake-up with new CEO & CFO
Banking technology firm secures new faces at the top.
