10/24/2019
State Street tech chief departs amid strategy review
State Street's global chief technology officer of four years has departed, as the bank undergoes a review of its technology ecosystem.
Executive Moves
10/23/2019
Cisco appoints Sally Kimeu Country Leader and Regional Manager East Africa
Prior to her current appointment, Sally was Cisco’s Strategic Business Manager for the United Nations in East and Southern Africa as well as Egypt.
10/22/2019
Mastercard and Visa are fighting over Revolut
Revolut has an EU banking license from Lithuania’s central bank and will partner with a US-licensed bank when its rolls out in America.
10/21/2019
Nutmeg CIO exits for ‘one of the biggest financial firms in the world’
Stead adds Port is now leaving Nutmeg “to start an exciting new role for one of the biggest and most well-known financial services firms in the world”, without giving further details.
10/20/2019
Standard Chartered appoints Regional Chief Information Officer for Africa and the Middle East, Islamic banking
Mohamed Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Razek will play a strategic role in driving the bank's technology strategy across the region
10/18/2019
Digital agency appoints sales and partnerships director
Duncan Colman, director of Spike, added: "We are very excited to bring Nikki into the business. Her extensive and varied experience will be invaluable in driving our ambitious growth plans in the coming years."
10/17/2019
UBS managing director Choo Oi Yee to join digital securities startup iSTOX
iSTOX was admitted into the Monetary Authority of Singapore's FinTech Regulatory Sandbox in May this year, and aims to become fully operational next year after graduating from the sandbox in early-2020.
10/11/2019
Bank of America Is Now Hiring in Blockchain, Not Just Filing Patents
A recently closed ad on LinkedIn also suggests the bank has plans to use Ripple’s distributed ledger-based payments network in some form.
10/09/2019
Golden Equator Appoints Venture Investments Partner
In her new role, she will mentor portfolio companies and maintain Golden Equator's strategic partnerships across the innovation and investment communities, the statement said.
10/09/2019
Nivaura hires ex-HSBC syndicate manager
Chris Jones, former head of local currency syndicate at HSBC, will join Nivarua's capital markets operation, "focusing on market structure and product strategy", according to a release.
10/08/2019
‘Jim’ the Chatbot Helps Singapore Bank Hire for Its Wealth Business
Quality of shortlisted candidates improved after DBS uses Jim
10/08/2019
Contineo Hires Franck Lerat as Chief Technology Officer to Support Further expansion
CEO Antoine de Charnacé explained this addition to the team was very timely and an important milestone for the company to support the positive trend and ongoing developments.
10/04/2019
DriveWealth Appoints Julie Coin as President
The Ex-Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank executive brings an array of strategic experience to the technology provider
10/03/2019
Wealth management fintech firm appoints Chief Product Officer of Digital Wealth Platform
During his 18 years at the firm, he has also been responsible for guiding JHC and its clients through a complex regulatory landscape including MiFID II and GDPR.
10/03/2019
Pay.uk Appoints New Chief Risk Officer
Helen has over 25 years’ experience in both risk and assurance roles
10/01/2019
Huntswood appoints new CEO
Huntswood prides itself on delivering value and great outcomes for clients, and I look forward to growing this ambition over the coming years.
09/30/2019
Sanlam boosts team with new Chief Technology Officer
Alex has more than twenty years of experience in financial services.
09/26/2019
Avaloq adds two senior hires to London team
The expansion comes six months after Avaloq doubled the size of its London presence with a new office in the City
09/24/2019
Ecobank announces appointment of new senior fintech advisor
Prior to joining the Ecobank Group, Djiba was the head of innovations at Microsoft4Afrika, where she built the strategy to identify, support and attract major African fintech start-ups and partners to the Microsoft Cloud platform and oversaw 50 countries
09/20/2019
Finantix Aappoints experienced Business Development Director
According to latest industry figures, the wealth of the world’s 500 richest people is up more than $658 billion this year