ON THE MOVE On the move
up a new unit to drive its digital transformation initiative. Commencing operations in September, this will be co-headed by Poul Raaholt, previously head of Group IT at Nordea, and Ewan MacLeod, previously responsible for the retail digital transformation programme at Royal Bank of Scotland. Alvaro Garrido, former Group Head of Technology at Standard Chartered Bank, is the new head of Group IT.
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The Group Digital unit will oversee the bank’s entire digital project portfolio, including core banking systems replacement and simplification initiatives.
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roles previously including Chief Operations Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Information Officer at the likes of National Australia Bank, Computer Science Corporation and IBM. Guichelaar joins the Group from Deutsche Bank, where she was most recently Head of Transformation.
BNP Paribas has announced three new appointments at the Group’s Retail businesses, designed to drive forward its digital transformation initiative. Sophie Heller has been appointed Chief Operating Officer for Retail Banking & Services, Béatrice Cossa Dumurgier takes over as Head of Personal Investors, and Franciska Decuypere is to become Head of the Retail & SME Banking at International Retail Banking.
Heller joins from ING Direct, where she was Head of Retail Banking. Dumurgier is a BNP Paribas Group Retail businesses veteran, having held the post of Chief Operating Officer at Retail Banking and Head of Retail Development & Innovation. Decuypere previously served as Head of BNP Paribas Personal Investors.
Lloyds Banking Group (pictured) has appointed Jacqueline Guichelaar as Head of Infrastructure and Service Delivery. She has held various senior
Banco Santander has appointed Digital Asset Holdings CEO Blythe Masters as Group Senior Advisor on blockchain. Masters previously held a non-executive position as chair of the board of Santander Consumer USA. She is also joining Banco Santander’s International Advisory Board and the board of its online bank, Openbank.
Prior to Digital Asset, which has raised $60 million from the likes of Santander, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, Masters spent 27 years at JPMorgan Chase where she held such positions as Head of Global Commodities, and CFO of J.P. Morgan’s Investment Bank.
Santander is currently testing out blockchain for international payments. It is rolling out an app as a staff pilot with the intention to expand this at a later date. The blockchain technology underpinning the app is provided by Ripple, which Santander InnoVentures, the FinTech VC fund of Santander Group, has invested in.
Tobias Unger is to join core banking solutions specialist Avaloq in October. He will succeed Markus Gröninger as CEO of Avaloq’s Swiss Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centre. Gröninger has been promoted to the Group Executive Board and takes over the responsibility for all existing BPO centres in the Global Processing Network.
Unger is joining from Zurich-based Falcon Private Bank, where he has served as the COO and Deputy CEO since 2010, overseeing the FI’s outsourcing of its core banking IT and back office to Avaloq (the two began working together in 2011). Prior to that, he worked as an investment banker both at UBS and Merrill Lynch in Zurich and in London.
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