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Regtech Kaizen Reporting recruits managing director

Leading regulatory technology firm, Kaizen Reporting today announced that Matthew Vincent is the latest senior hire to join the team.

18 October 2022

Company update/payments

Spice Money makes compliance appointment

Spice Money (subsidiary of DiGiSPICE Technologies), India’s leading rural fintech, which is revolutionizing the way Bharat banks, announced the appointment of Usha Murali as Chief Compliance & Risk Officer (CCRO).

18 October 2022

News/crypto

Coinbase plans for European expansion

Crypto exchange Coinbase has raided German digital assets firm Solaris to appoint its chief operating officer Daniel Seifert as regional managing director for Europe.

17 October 2022

News/payments

JP Morgan names Apac head of payments

Madhav Kalyan has been appointed as head of Asia Pacific payments for JP Morgan as part of a reshuffle of the bank's senior management in the region.

17 October 2022

News/people

Stripe taps Meta's Sharma to lead new revenue and financial management team

Stripe has appointed Microsoft and Meta veteran Vivek Sharma as its first head of revenue and financial management.

17 October 2022

News/sustainable

Sibos 2022: ‘The biggest problem with ESG is its complexity’ – Brown Brothers Harriman

At Sibos 2022 in Amsterdam, we spoke to Adrian Whelan, global head of regulatory intelligence, Brown Brothers Harriman, ahead of his panel session, ‘Green, clean, and ESG: Rewiring capital markets for a new generation of responsible investors.’

13 October 2022

Company update/people

MonetaGo appoints Neil Shonhard as new CEO

Financial technology solutions provider MonetaGo today announced that its co-founder and CEO Jesse Chenard will transition to the role of Executive Chairman, and that Neil Shonhard, currently President, will become Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.

07 October 2022

Company update/people

NatWest's Helen Cook joins Finastra as chief people officer

Finastra today announced the appointment of Helen Cook as Chief People Officer. In her role she takes global responsibility for the people organization and advancing the company’s aspiration to be the most inclusive and diverse employer in the Fintech industry.

06 October 2022

News/people

SoftBank’s Vision Fund to layoff 30% of staff

SoftBank is planning to cut around 30% of staff to their investment arm Vision Fund.

30 September 2022

Company update/inclusion

Women Venture Asia launches to support female entrepreneurs in Singapore

Gender gap in entrepreneurship – a much-discussed topic today even as we have made great strides across the century as a society. Founders Harmin Kaur, Deborah Widjaja and Dr. Sandhya Sriram seek to mitigate these factors and empower women entrepreneurs through their latest non-profit venture, Women Venture Asia.

30 September 2022

News/people

Celsius CEO steps down as FTX moves in

Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky has stepped down amid bankruptcy proceedings and former JPMorgan Chase exec Chris Ferraro has been appointed interim CEO.

28 September 2022

News/people

Truelayer to axe 10% of staff

Truelayer is the latest fintech to send staff to the chopping block, AltFi revealed this morning. CEO of the open banking company, Francesco Simoneschi alerted staff that their headcount would be cut by 10%.

16 September 2022

Company update/people

Genesis Global names Marina Kilcline chief human resources officer

Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets organizations, today announced Marina Kilcline as Chief Human Resources Officer. Kilcline reports to CEO, Stephen Murphy.

12 September 2022

News/people

Tech founders comprise 25% of Tech Nation’s Global Talent Visa endorsements

Tech Nation’s Global Talent Visa Report 2022 reveals that international tech leaders are rolling into the UK and strengthening the sector.

12 September 2022

News/people

ClearBank hires Andrew Barker as chief revenue officer

ClearBank has announced the appointment of Andrew Barker as its new chief revenue officer.

08 September 2022

News/inclusion

35 startups tapped for Tech Nation’s diversity-driven Libra 2.0 programme

Tech Nation has selected 35 tech startups to join their second Libra programme for underrepresented tech founders. Libra 2.0 is focused on promoting diverse tech leaders in the UK by choosing companies founded by Black, South Asian, East Asian, and Arab leaders in the industry.

07 September 2022

Company update/startups

Yes Bank signs MoU with India's Gift City

GIFT City - India’s first operational smart city and International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) - has announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with YES BANK to strengthen the fintech ecosystem in GIFT City.

06 September 2022

News/regulation

Revolut under pressure over internal audit

Online bank Revolut is facing more questions over its internal controls after it was criticised by a UK regulator for the unacceptably high risk of "material misstatement" in its account auditing.

06 September 2022

News/people

Hong Kong to introduce subsidies to attract fintechs

The Hong Kong government is set to bring in a number of financial incentives to address what has been termed as a skills shortage, especially in terms of the fintech sector.

05 September 2022

News/regulation

Varo Bank’s proposal to reform the CRA champions financial inclusion

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was created in order to ensure that the credit needs of lower income communities in the US were accommodated by local financial institutions. However, many financial firms are proposing a reform of this act to be more inclusive of low and moderate income communities.

05 September 2022

Human resources