Tagged: new appointments

May 7, 2022 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pie Insurance, an Insurtech specializing in workers’ comp insurance for small businesses, announced it appointed leadership team members “including David Samuels as the first chief commercial officer, Dimitrius King as the first chief claims officer, Kelly North as vice president of business development, and Jen… Read More

May 7, 2022 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) has appointed Vivek Ramachandran as Head of Global Trade and Receivables Finance (GTRF), “with immediate effect.” The appointment is reportedly a return to HSBC for Vivek, who had first joined HSBC back in 2015 as the firm’s Global Head of Product and… Read More

May 7, 2022 @ 2:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GoCardless, which claims to be a leader in direct bank payment solutions, has announced the appointment of Paul Stoddart as President. Stoddart joins from Mastercard where he “was President of its New Payment Platforms, Executive Chairman of Vocalink and a Member of the Mastercard Management… Read More

May 5, 2022 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Transact365, a UK-headquartered global payments platform powering merchants in emerging markets, has appointed David Lambert as its new Chief Executive Officer. An original co-founder and former Commercial Director at Transact365, Lambert will be responsible for overseeing the Fintech firm’s expanding merchant client base and card… Read More

May 2, 2022 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, which claims to be Europe’s “leading” Open Banking platform, recently announced further expansion of its Spanish operations “with the appointment of Pablo Ruano as its Country Manager.” Madrid-based Pablo will “oversee commercial strategy in the country, alongside TrueLayer’s recently appointed VP of EU Sales,… Read More

April 30, 2022 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Regtech ALT/AVE  has announced key appointments “to its Advisory Board and a funding boost of more than half a million pounds.” Joining ALT/AVE CEO and founder Chris Ansara and Chair Phil Shelley on the newly created advisory board, “to help guide the company through… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Varo Bank, N.A., which claims to be the first all-digital, nationally chartered bank in the US, has announced the appointment of Spencer Rascoff, Co-Founder and former CEO of Zillow to Varo’s Board of Directors. Rascoff joins Varo’s Board to continue “to scale Varo, a one-of-a-kind… Read More

April 27, 2022 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), an international provider of “high-performance” professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, recently announced that London-based industry veteran Nick Garrow has joined the firm in the new position of EVP Multi-Asset & Buy Side. Garrow has over 20 years of… Read More

April 26, 2022 @ 8:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Talus Pay, which claims to be a fast-growing tech-driven provider of payment processing solutions for small and mid-sized merchants, is pleased to confirm that payments industry veteran Bryan Fricke has joined the firm as Chief Revenue Officer. Fricke will be “responsible for the performance, strategy… Read More

April 26, 2022 @ 1:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) recently announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Francis (Frank) La Salla, currently CEO of BNY Mellon’s Issuer Services business and a member of the BNY Mellon Executive Committee, as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 6:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payments as a service provider, Answer Pay, has reportedly made key appointments to bolster its plans “to support the growth of Request to Pay across Europe.” Following on from the recent award of grant funding from the UK government’s Department for International Trade and its… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 4:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Multiverse Computing, which claims to be an international leader in quantum computing solutions for the financial industry and beyond, recently announced the appointment of Karina Robinson as Senior Advisor. As noted in an update shared with CI, Robinson joins Multiverse with more than 10 years… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

21Shares AG, which claims to be the world’s largest issuer of cryptocurrency ETPs, recently announced the appointment of Karan Chawla as VP of Product in order “to drive the firm’s growth amid historic demand and institutional adoption of digital assets.” In his new leadership role,… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 2:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitolis, the tech company reimagining capital markets, recently announced that it has grown its employee base by 50% “versus the same period last year as the company continues growing and scaling the business to meet customer demands and ongoing opportunities to innovate.” The investment in… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 8:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra has confirmed the appointment of Isabel Fernandez, a “highly” regarded senior banking and technology executive, “to the role of EVP for the company’s Lending Business Unit, effective May 2022.” Isabel will be “part of Finastra’s recently expanded leadership team as the company pivots to… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm Binance recently noted that they are pleased to announce the appointment of Seth Levy, formerly from Citadel LLC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), “as Binance’s Head of Market Surveillance.” Seth will be responsible for overseeing efforts “to… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 9:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dreams, the financial wellbeing platform and “leader” in engagement banking solutions, recently announced the appointment of Russell Prince-Wright, Jason Curtis and Peter Hedlund, to join Dreams’ senior management team “as Regional Directors and drive the company’s B2B expansion.” Collectively, Russell, Jason and Peter “bring more… Read More

April 21, 2022 @ 8:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wayflyer, the revenue-based financing and growth platform for digital commerce merchants, recently confirmed a series of new hires across its offices based in Europe and the United States. Several key appointments have reportedly been made in the Talent team. Ciara Smyth has joined the firm… Read More

April 21, 2022 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

First Internet Bank recently announced that Genevieve Lua has “joined its growing Small Business Administration (SBA) Lending team as a Vice President, Business Development Officer.” First Internet Bank Vice President, National SBA Sales Manager Mark Gibson said: “Genevieve’s people-first focus and relationship-building skills are important… Read More

April 20, 2022 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, recently announced that James Phillips will be joining as President of Financial Services. James joins Stripe after spending about a decade working at Microsoft where he “helped scale the Digital Transformation Platform Group.” At Microsoft, James led… Read More