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Bank of England Senior Advisor Sholthana Begum Moves to FCA as Data Strategy Lead
Sholthana Begum, senior advisor and head of division at the Bank of England, and a popular A-Team Group Summit speaker, has left the bank after a 16-year career. Moving on, she will join the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as head of the data and data strategy department. Begum joined the Bank of England in 2006…
CDO Pioneer Peter Serenita Retires from Scotiabank After Distinguished Career in Capital Markets
Peter Serenita, a pioneer of the CDO role and a popular speaker at A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Summits, has retired after a distinguished career spanning more than 20 years in capital markets data management. In a LinkedIn post early this week, Serenita wrote: “Well, the time has come. I have officially retired. I have…
Gresham Technologies Strengthens North America Sales Team
Gresham Technologies has named Rob McGowan as senior sales executive in North America as the company expands in the region following its June 2021 acquisition of Electra Information Systems. McGowan joined Gresham in the first quarter of this year and is based in the company’s New York office. He joined from Duco, and previously held…
FINBOURNE Names Robert Byrne as CTO
FINBOURNE Technology, provider of the LUSID cloud-native, API-first investment data management platform, has appointed Robert Byrne as chief technology officer. The company says the appointment marks the next phase of growth for the SaaS scale-up, which now stands at over 140 employees globally, and coincides with FINBOURNE’s recent expansion into North America and Asia Pacific….
DTCC Names BNY Mellon Executive Frank La Salla as President and CEO
DTCC has named Francis (Frank) La Salla as president and CEO of the company with effect from 12 August 2022. He will join DTCC from BNY Mellon, where he is CEO of the bank’s issuer services business and a member of the executive committee. La Salla’s appointment is the result of long-term succession planning and…
Broadridge Names Stephan Müller as Managing Director for Germany
Broadridge has appointed Stephan Müller as managing director for Germany. Based in Frankfurt, Müller will join Broadridge’s international leadership team and will be responsible for leading and growing Broadridge’s overall business in Germany across all solution lines in its global technology and operations portfolio, and its investor communication solutions. He will also manage Broadridge’s Payments-as-a-Service…
Delta Capita Appoints Steven Hargreaves as Head of UK Consulting
Delta Capita, a capital markets consulting, managed services and technology provider, has appointed Steve Hargreaves as head of consulting, UK. The company’s mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain, with the role of the consulting business being to create long-term partnerships with financial services clients, design and deliver the change they need, and…
KX Expands Global Product Strategy Team
KX has added Malcolm (aka Barry) Johnson and Charles Gregory to its product strategy team for financial services. Johnson takes the role of business development strategist and Gregory vice president of product management. Their remit is to further develop the KX technology roadmap to deliver against the evolving analytics needs of financial services organisations. Johnson…
Encompass Appoints Banking Industry Veteran Doris Honold to Board
Encompass, a provider of Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) software, has appointed banking industry veteran Doris Honold to its board. Honold has over 25 years of financial services experience, working in various executive roles across Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Singapore, Tokyo and London, where she is now based. Her career includes 12 years…
SmartSearch Appoints Former Dow Jones Executive as CEO
SmartSearch, an anti-money laundering specialist using electronic entity verification, has named Guy Harrison as CEO with responsibility to drive the company’s strategic growth plan. Harrison joins from Dow Jones, where he was general manager of the company’s risk and compliance business. He takes over the CEO role from SmartSearch CEO and founder John Dobson, who…