Alexandra Boyle Joins Symphony as Chief Marketing Officer

Symphony, a market messaging and collaboration technology platform, has appointed Alexandra Boyle as Chief Marketing Officer. Boyle joins from OpenFin, where she headed the Strategic Client Group in Europe.

Rapid Addition Names Deepak Dhayatker CTO

Electronic trading solutions specialist Rapid Addition has named Deepak Dhayatker as Chief Technology Officer. Dhayatker joins from Commerzbank, where he was responsible for building electronic trading and platform development teams across multiple locations. Prior to Commerzbank, he held senior software engineering roles at BNP Paribas, Dresdner Bank and CMC Markets. Splitting his time between London and Rapid Addition’s core development hub in Prague, Dhayatker will report to CEO Mike Powell.

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 joins KX with more than 20 years of experience in financial services and software, and was most recently a consultant and analyst at BAE. Gregory has worked at numerous global banks in Europe and was most recently responsible for product management for Nasdaq Trade Surveillance.

Baton Systems Appoints David Ornstein as COO

Baton Systems, specialists in distributed ledger technology (DLT) and post-trade processing, has announced the appointment of David Ornstein as the company’s first Chief Operating Officer. Ornstein was previously Chief Operating Officer of Global Markets at Barclays Investment Bank, where he served for 13 years. Prior to Barclays, Ornstein held senior roles with Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust. Most recently, he has been working in an advisory capacity for several growth companies. Ornstein’s appointment follows two other recent senior hires, Jerome Kemp as President and William Coen as Senior Advisor.

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 at Standard Chartered Bank, most recently as group COO and member of the executive committee. She is experienced in change management and digital transformation in large institutions and brings insight to Encompass into the challenges that many of its customers face within their own organisations.

Brad Small Joins Broadway as Head of Product

Front-office solutions provider Broadway has appointed Brad Small as Head of Product. Small joins the Executive Team and will steer the product vision, planning, strategies and projects for Broadway’s software solutions. He arrives with over 20 years of financial services industry experience, having previously held senior roles at ING, National Australia Bank, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns, and most recently Bloomberg, where he served as Fixed Income Product Manager. Small’s appointment follows a string of recent executive appointments at Broadway, including Michael Chin as CEO, Bruce Boytim as Chief Operating Officer, Dan Romanelli as Head of Relationships, and Claudia Cantarella as Chief Legal Officer.

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 launched the business in 2011 and will remain with the company as a non-executive director.

Trading Technologies Invests $6.35 Million in KRM22, as Todd Takes the Reins

Trading Technologies, the trading software, infrastructure and data solutions company recently acquired by 7RIDGE, has confirmed that it has invested $6.35 million in risk management technology company KRM22, and entered into a distribution agreement to market and distribute KRM22 risk management products. The investment and distribution agreement represent the first stage of cooperation between TT and KRM22, whose CEO Keith Todd has taken the helm at TT. The initial integrated risk service offering is anticipated to address pre-trade risk and will be available for TT clients to use in March.

NeoXam Names Former State Street COO as Managing Director for EMEA West

NeoXam has named former State Street COO France, Bruno Noyon, as managing director for the EMEA West region. Noyon joins NeoXam having most recently been managing director of IQ-EQ France and CEO of Equitis Gestion. Prior to this, he spent over 15 years as COO and senior vice president of State Street’s Global Servicing business in France. He has also held the role of global head of performance and data management at AXA Investment Managers. Noyon will be responsible for business growth in the region and will oversee over 100 consultants and an experienced distribution team.

Moody’s Appoints Former ISS Director to ESG Role

Moody’s ESG Solutions clients can now examine how companies’ emissions targets align with global net-zero benchmarks via a new Temperature Alignment Data product. The launch came as the company published a report that showed fewer than half of 4,400 companies surveyed had set emissions targets and only 17 per cent mentioned “net-zero”. Meanwhile, Moody’s has named former Institutional Shareholder Services Managing Director Julia Haake as its Managing Director for Market Strategy. Paris-based Haake will report to Moody’s ESG Solutions Global Head Andrea Blackman.