NatWest Names Scott Marcar as Group Chief Information Officer

NatWest Group has announced that Scott Marcar will join its executive committee as group chief information officer from 5 September 2022, subject to regulatory approval, and reporting directly to CEO Alison Rose. Marcar joins from Deutsche Bank, where he was chief information officer for the investment bank.

Marcar has over 25 years of technology experience having led teams across functions including corporate and investment banking, risk, finance, financial crime, infrastructure, data, and architecture. He also held a number of senior roles in technology at NatWest between 2007 and 2014.

Broadridge Hires David Turmaine as UK Lead for Consulting Services

Broadridge has hired David Turmaine as UK practice lead for its consulting services business. He joins Broadridge from Capco, where he was executive director with responsibility for driving digital transformation in the financial services industry. Turmaine’s career also includes a management role at Accenture, where he was an industry SME for Accenture post-trade processing. Prior to that, he held a 12-year tenure at JP Morgan, during which his responsibilities included head of securities and prime brokerage operations.

Following the success of Broadridge’s consulting business in the US, Turmaine will be responsible for expanding the footprint of Broadridge’s post-trade and digital asset consultancy across the UK, Europe and APAC. The practice helps buy-side and sell-side firms improve operational efficiency by driving data-informed decision making, process optimization, and digital innovation and automation.

TS Imagine Appoints Thomas Bodenski as Chief Operating Officer

TS Imagine, provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for capital markets, has appointed Thomas Bodenski as COO as the firm expands its executive team to support its rapid growth.

Bodenski was previously Chief Transformation and Data Officer at the company, and earlier in his career held senior roles at FOXEYE, State Street, Capco, CSC and NTS New Technology Systems Bodenski. Based in New York, he will lead business operations across TS Imagine’s integrated trading, portfolio, and real-time risk solutions.

TS Imagine Appoints Three New Board Members

TS Imagine, the trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions company, has announced the appointment of three new non-executive board members to support the firm’s rapid growth. They are Thomas Chippas, previously CEO of ErisX who now serves on the board of Eris Clearing, LLC; Sabrina Wilson, Chief Operating Officer of the institutional digital asset infrastructure firm Copper.co; and John Stracquadanio, co-founder of private investment firm, Appia Ventures.

The senior appointments follow TS Imagine’s announcement of strong growth a year after the merger of TradingScreen and Imagine Software, including 100 new hires during the first half of this year.

ACA Group Names ESG Veteran as European MD

The ACA Group has named former United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI) European director Marie Luchet as its new Managing Director of ESG. Luchet will lead the governance, risk and compliance adviser’s European operations. In her more-than 20 years working in ESG, Luchet also served as Head of Responsible Investment with ECOFI Investissements and as an ESG sell-side analyst with CIC Market Solutions.

Push Technology Promotes Grethe Brown to CEO

Grethe Brown, who joined real-time data streaming and messaging solutions provider Push Technology as COO earlier this year, has been named by the company as its new CEO. Brown has extensive experience in driving growth across operations, R&D, and commercial management for software companies in a variety of industries including Telco, FinTech and Food & Beverage.  She holds a BSc in mathematics from the University of Linkoping in Sweden, and an MBA from the University of Surrey.

More Names Added to Bring ISSB Team to 10

Four more members have been added to the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), the IFRS Foundation’s recently created body that’s been tasked with hammering out an international framework for ESG reporting. They are Richard Barker, of the University of Oxford Saïd Business School’s sustainable business initiatives; Verity Chegar of California State Teachers’ Retirement System; Bing Leng, Director in the Accounting Regulatory Department of the Chinese Ministry of Finance; and, Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien, former Group Chief Sustainability and Governance Officer at Dangote Industries. The new additions bring board membership to 10, with more expected to be announced soon.

Northern Trust Appoints Senior Execs to Head Front Office Solutions and Global Foreign Exchange Businesses

Northern Trust has appointed John Turney as Global Head of Front Office Solutions and Marisa Kurk as Head of Global Foreign Exchange (GFX). Turney, who has led GFX since 2018, takes the helm of the Front Office Solutions business as it expands to new markets across the globe, and will report to Melanie Pickett, Head of Asset Owners, Americas. Kurk, with nearly two decades of institutional foreign exchange experience, joined Northern Trust as Chief Operating Officer for GFX in 2019 and was named Chief Strategy Officer in 2021. As Head of GFX, she will report to Guy Gibson, Global Head of Capital Markets.

smartTrade Appoints Michael Henssler as President and Chief Operating Officer

Multi-asset electronic trading platforms provider smartTrade has appointed Michael Henssler as its President and Chief Operating Officer. Based in London, Henssler will be responsible for the running of all smartTrade’s field operations including sales, pre-sales and client engagement.

Henssler brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software and capital markets, most recently as General Manager of Finastra’s Treasury, Capital Markets and Risk (TCM) business unit. Prior to this his roles at Finastra included engineering support, implementation & consulting, pre-sales, business development and product management for platforms including Kondor, Sophis, Summit and Opics.

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 sales roles at SmartStream Technologies and RegTek Solutions.