Zodia Custody names Julian Sawyer as its new CEO
Sawyer has previously served as CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp, and was co-founder of Starling Bank.
Movers and Shakers
Jack Ma to cede control of Chinese fintech Ant Group
After the restructuring, “no shareholder, alone or jointly with other parties, will have control over Ant Group”, the firm says.
Radu Topliceanu named as new head of digital bank Mashreq Neo
Mashreq Neo is the digital offshoot of UAE’s Mashreq – “a bank for a brilliant new world” – launched in 2017.
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.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 6 January 2023
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Blockchain compliance firm Securrency appoints Nadine Chakar CEO
Nadine Chakar replaces Sucurrency founder and CEO Dan Doney, who moves to the CTO role.
BharatPe CEO Suhail Sameer steps down
In a statement, BharatPe says that Sameer will “transition” from CEO to strategic advisor on 7 January 2023.
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.
2022: Top five movers and shakers
FinTech Futures recaps the year’s top movers and shakers.
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.
Cboe Clear Europe hires Vikesh Patel as president
Patel joins from interbank cooperative Swift, where he was most recently head of securities.
Network International appoints group chief business transformation and technology officer
Network’s new hire Sandeep Chouhan brings over three decades of experience working in consumer banking and payments.
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.
Mangopay appoints Carlos Sanchez Arruti as CFO
Arruti joins from Amazon and brings more than two decades of experience to the role.
The Bank of London names Gavin Hewitt as new chief financial officer
Hewitt will lead the firm’s accounting, finance and corporate treasury operations.
Solaris shakes up management board as it strives for profitability
The move is linked to a new target operating model and the firm’s new CEO, Carsten Höltkemeyer.
New CFO at Swiss fintech Crealogix
Christophe Biollaz joins Crealogix on 1 February 2023 and replaces Daniel Bader, who is leaving the firm.
ING CTO Ron van Kemenade to join Lloyds as COO next year
He will take up his new role at the UK bank in June 2023 subject to regulatory approval.
BaaS fintech Griffin hires Sameer Dubey as chief product officer
Dubey brings 15 years of experience in financial services to the role.
ConnexPay hires payments “titan” Blair Jeffery as COO
Jeffery will lead the company’s core strategic and operational teams.
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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.
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
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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%.
