Refinitiv Names Sherry Madera as Global Head of Industry and Government Affairs

Refinitiv has named Sherry Madera as global head of industry and government affairs with a view to enhancing its engagement across government, policy initiatives, industry trends and regulatory developments. Madera joins Refinitiv from the City of London Corporation and has over 20 years’ experience across both the public and private sectors, including corporate finance, banking, asset management and, more recently, global policy leadership and advocacy in financial and professional services. At Refinitiv, Madera and her team will engage with customers, industry groups, regulators and governments to help tackle key customer challenges and advocate for fair, efficient and sustainable financial markets.

RegTek.Solutions Hires ex-IHS Markit Exec Chris Cornish to Strengthen SFTR team

RegTek.Solutions has hired Chris Cornish as a consultant business analyst based in London. He joins from IHS Markit where he was a senior business analyst and a Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) specialist. He was previously at ICBC Standard Bank, where he worked on SFTR implementation. At RegTek.Solutions, Cornish will focus on Validate.Trade, a product used by banks and asset managers to monitor the quality of reporting data, with a view to adding SFTR reporting quality assurance.

Horizon Names Philippe Thomas as an Advisory Board Member

Horizon Software has named Philippe Thomas as a member of its advisory board. Thomas has previously held executive positions at Ullink and SunGard, and joins Horizon from his role as a consultant and investor at New World Wind, a provider of sustainable electrical services. The appointment is part of the company’s expansion strategy following an MBO in June 2018 and requires Thomas to provide coaching on business strategies that will support Horizon’s global growth.

Accuity Promotes David Wilson to Role of MD and CEO

Accuity has promoted David Wilson to the role of managing director and CEO with responsibility to deliver innovative solutions for payments, risk and compliance, develop strategic partnerships, and deliver high quality client service. He steps up to the role after 18 months as chief operating officer (COO) at the provider of financial crime compliance, payments and Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions.

Wilson replaces former CEO and president Hugh Jones, who moves on to become a global managing director of Accuity’s parent company RELX Group, with ongoing oversight of Accuity. Also promoted is Tom Golding, who steps into the COO role.

GLEIF Seeks Applicants to Join Board of Directors

The GLEIF is calling for applications from C-suite level executives in the UK, Switzerland, China and India to join its board of directors. New board members will be appointed in June 2019 in line with the mandatary rotation of members of the board and to ensure the right balance of jurisdictional and skill representation. Details of the application process to join the board can be found here. Applications must be submitted by Monday February 11, 2019.

Andreas Shneble Joins IDNow

Andreas Shneble has joined German KYC specialist IDNow as Head of Marketing. Based in Munich, IDNow combines AI, facial recognition and machine learning to deliver instant identity verification through its KYC platform, in compliance with EU-wide regulations. Schneble joins from Rocket Media House, an advisory firm he founded in 2016. He was previously Director of Digital Marketing at Digitas, part of the Publicis Media Group, and before that was Global Head of Digital at G Data Software. He holds a degree in Business Administration from San Francisco State University.

Alex Pavel Joins IHS Markit

Alex Pavel has joined IHS Markit as Sales Director. Based in London, Pavel has responsibility for growing the company’s risk and regulatory compliance business across Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), the Middle East and Africa. Pavel was formerly with Thomson Reuters in Dubai, where he spent four years in enterprise sales. He holds an MBA from the Université Paris Dauphine.

QuantHouse Appoints CTO and COO to Drive Growth and Innovation

QuantHouse has appointed its co-founder Denery Fenouil as chief technology officer (CTO) and Emmanuel Carjat, co-founder of Atrium Network, as chief operating officer (COO) to facilitate the company’s global growth. Rejoining the firm to oversee software and technology development, Fenouil was previously the architect of QuantHouse’s low latency market data solution. As COO, Carjat will manage QuantHouse’s operations and guide continued growth, which the firm says has escalated since the buyback from S&P in 2017, driven by product innovation and strategic investment.

Fintech Advisor Amar Rajani Joins VTFinTech Board

VTFinTech, a provider of index management and research evaluation services, has named Amar Rajani as a member of its board with immediate effect. Rajani is the founder and managing director of Argella, an advisory firm specialising in fintech and with specialist knowledge in research, data and analytics. Prior to founding Argella, Rajani spent 17 years at Bloomberg, where he was responsible for a range of buy-side and sell-side products.

VTFinTech manages investment portfolios and bespoke benchmarks through its Parity One solution and provides independent evaluation of investment research through Parity One Research, helping firms comply with EU Benchmarks Regulation and the research unbundling requirements of MiFID II.

Rajani says: “VTFinTech has come together to transform the way investments are done today by introducing intelligent quantitative techniques and automation into various investment functions. Its unique offering is a game changer in today’s post MiFID II research environment.”

FSB Names US Federal Reserve’s Randal K Quarles as Chair

Mark Carney will step down from the role of chair at the Financial Stability Board (FSB) at the end of this month, making way for Randal K Quarles, governor and vice chairman for supervision at the US Federal Reserve, to take the chair for a three-year term running from December 2, 2018 to December 1, 2021. Klaas Knot, president of De Nederlandsche Bank, becomes vice chair and will succeed Quarles as chair from December 2, 2021 to December 1, 2024. The appointments were recommended by a specially convened FSB nominations committee and unanimously agreed by the plenary of the organisation.