Ferris named new FIS president
Core supplier FIS promoted Stephanie Ferris as its new president earlier this month.
Ferris beforehand served as chief operations officer and chief accounting officer at FIS, the place she was answerable for main world technique and expertise transformation, in addition to the worldwide integration of Worldpay, an e-commerce and cost resolution. Ferris has experience in main funds and expertise platform companies, driving digital transformation, front-line buyer engagement and inclusive progress.
Previous to FIS, Ferris held a number of roles at Fifth Third and was CFO of the funds processing division on the financial institution, which later turned Vantiv. She started her profession in public accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
JPMorgan blockchain product Liink will get new head after Christine Moy departs
Sushil Raja, CFO and head of technique at Onyx, JPMorgan’s blockchain unit, will turn out to be the brand new world head of JPMorgan’s blockchain product, Liink, after Christine Moy left the $3.7 trillion financial institution to pursue an exterior alternative, Bloomberg Mercury reported final week, sourcing an inner memo from Umar Farooq, head of Onyx.
JPMorgan launched Onyx in 2020 and the enterprise now has about 200 workers, based on the report.
Digital market financial institution LendingClub names new CTO
Balaji Thiagarajan has been named chief expertise officer (CTO) at digital market financial institution LendingClub.
Thiagarajan, who will lead all product growth efforts on the financial institution, brings expertise with massive information, machine studying, cellular and cloud computing to the position, and plans to construct on the financial institution’s current product capabilities.
He beforehand served as CTO and SVP of product growth at Change Healthcare, a $3 billion publicly traded well being care expertise firm. He has additionally held senior expertise roles at Uber, Oracle, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Scott Sanborn, CEO of LendingClub, stated Thiagarajan joins the San Francisco-based financial institution at a transformational level in its evolution.
“His in depth expertise in direct-to-consumer expertise organizations that leverage massive information, machine studying, cellular applied sciences and cloud computing to ship on each unimaginable enterprise and buyer outcomes is second to none,” Sanborn stated. “He’s completely suited to guide the expertise group as we create the digital market financial institution of the longer term.”
Barclays names Anna Cross finance director
Barclays introduced it should appoint Anna Cross as its new chief monetary officer, efficient April 23. She’s going to change Tushar Morzaria, who’s retiring after greater than eight years within the position. Morzaria will turn out to be chairman of the funding financial institution’s monetary establishments group.
“I’ve labored carefully with Anna for six years and am delighted that she is our new group finance director,” Chief Govt Officer C.S. Venkatakrishnan stated final week throughout a name with analysts. “She is intimately aware of the technique of the financial institution and all points of our financials, having been controller of the financial institution in addition to CFO of our retail operations.”
Cross would be the financial institution’s first feminine group CFO. She may also be a part of the group’s govt committee.
Cross, who has been at Barclays since 2013, turned Mozaria’s deputy in July 2020. She beforehand labored at Lloyds Banking Group Plc and grocer ASDA.
Circle appoints new chief product officer from Meta
Circle, the principal operator of the stablecoin USD Coin (USDC), introduced Wednesday Nikhil Chandhok will be a part of the fintech as chief product officer. He involves Circle from Meta, the place he led product growth for Augmented Actuality (AR) glasses, launching the corporate’s sensible glasses and Spark AR Studio, the biggest AR creator community.
Chandhok will lead Circle’s world product and progress group, with a give attention to bringing digital currencies resembling USDC to world, mainstream scale, whereas making this expertise accessible to companies in every single place. Circle is a worldwide monetary expertise agency that permits companies to make use of energy of digital currencies and public blockchains for funds, commerce and monetary functions.
Previous to Meta, Chandhok was the AR platform lead at Google, overseeing Google’s AR efforts. He was the founder and CEO of Bento Labs, a startup that constructed an AI-enabled Android distribution. He was additionally an early worker and product lead at YouTube.
Truist appoints new funding banking group heads in expertise, ESG
Truist appointed new funding banking group heads for expertise, ESG and personal institutional capital funding banking in February. The three additions will bolster the agency’s presence on the East Coast, the financial institution acknowledged.
Stellar Tucker has joined Truist Securities as group head of expertise funding banking, and can oversee groups that serve the cloud expertise, fintech, software program and web, martech and IT companies industries. She may also function head of Truist Securities’ Miami workplace. Tucker most just lately served as govt vice chairman and head of company growth and strategic initiatives at HCL Applied sciences.
Julie Bennett Bunuan joined the agency in January as group head of ESG advisory and intra-industries protection. Previous to becoming a member of Truist, she led the ESG and Strategic Options Group for the Americas at HSBC. Beforehand, she held positions at Barclays and Lehman Brothers.
Ileana Chu has been promoted to group head of Personal Institutional Capital, answerable for monetary sponsors and different capital traders, together with progress fairness, enterprise capital, credit score funds, and infrastructure funds. Chu, who joined Truist Securities in 2014, has served as head of the Structured Merchandise Group since 2018. Previous to becoming a member of Truist, she was head of the esoteric and structured options syndicate at Deutsche Financial institution Securities, and labored in ABS syndicate and buying and selling at Financial institution of America Securities.
Haught steps up at Aptys Options
Cloud-based digital cost resolution Aptys Options named Mike Haugh account supervisor and gross sales engineer as of Feb. 3. Aptys works with 4,500 monetary establishments to supply cellular P2P, wire, ACH, and in-clearing.
Haugh will collaborate with clients to resolve complicated cost points and improve present infrastructures at banks and credit score unions.
Haugh was previously a senior product analyst and product proprietor at Fiserv, the place he spearheaded ACH software compliance and the product roadmap. He beforehand held roles at Axiom Financial institution, Goldleaf Applied sciences, The Kirchman Company and Freedom Financial savings and Mortgage.
