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Niamh De Niese Director as Head of its EMEA Innovation Centre, based in London. She will be tasked with expanding the solutions delivered via the FI’s NEXEN digital platform, driving client engagement and building FinTech relationships.


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De Niese was most recently Head of Visa’s European innovation labs in London, Berlin and Tel Aviv. One of BNY Mellon’s six innovation centres, the EMEA facility opened in October 2015, lining up alongside others in Pune and Chennai in India, and in Jersey City, Silicon Valley (Palo Alto) and Pittsburgh in the US. Additional ones will soon open in Oriskany, N.Y. and Singapore.


Former Morgan Stanley MD in global capital markets, Caitlin Long, has joined blockchain outfit Symbiont as President and Chairman of its Board of Directors. The US startup is the technology partner for the State of Delaware’s Blockchain Initiative (DBI), is teaming with Ipreo to revamp the $4.7 trillion syndicated loan market, and provided blockchain technology for a large European insurer’s catastrophe swap pilot project in June.


Long, who brings 22 years of experience on Wall Street to Symbiont, has been involved with Bitcoin since 2012 and began singing the praises of blockchain technology and its ability to make financial markets more efficient in 2014. She was one


NY Mellon has named


of five members of Morgan Stanley’s distributed ledger technology working group.


FinTech venture Centtrip has appointed Mark Hipperson as CTO and Executive Board Director. This follows 12 months as a Non-Executive Director at Centtrip. In his new role, he will head up a 10-strong technology team, reporting to founders Tony North and Brian Jamieson.


Hipperson was previously CTO and Co-Founder of Starling, a UK digital challenger bank. But he parted ways with the venture earlier this year, telling the FT: “We had a disagreement on the way forward and I therefore decided I would resign.” It was familiar territory for the new entrant, the brainchild of Anne Boden, a former Chief Operating Officer of Allied Irish Bank (AIB). Last year, it was left looking for a new management team, following the departure of: CTO, Tom Blomfield (who was behind GoCardless, a startup looking to make direct debits accessible to individuals, and has since gone on to launch rival challenger Monzo); CFO, Gary Dolman (ex-ABN Amro); CRO, Paul Rippon (ex-Allied Irish Banks); and Chief Customer Officer, John Bates.


Australia’s ANZ is overhauling its operating model for technology, operations and shared services. This follows the announcement that Group Chief Operating Officer Alistair Currie is stepping down later this year “to


further his international banking career”.


Key changes will include: Chief Information Officer Scott Collary will report to Currie until the transition of the Group Technology reporting line to CEO Shayne Elliott later this year; General Manager Transformation Projects Nigel Dobson will assume responsibility for Wholesale Digital Strategy and Payments Transformation, reporting to Group Executive Digital Banking Maile Carnegie.


Elliott comments: “These changes to our operating model better support ANZ’s strategic priorities and allow us to build on the significant progress that has been made in recent years in Technology, Operations and Shared Services. This progress highlights the importance of Alistair’s contribution to ANZ.”


US startup Progressly has secured $6 million in Series A funding and announced former Salesforce, Twitter and LinkedIn executive Ruslan Belkin as its vice president of product development. The funding round was led by 8VC’s Joe Lonsdale and Drew Oetting, with participation from Bill Malloy and Brian Nugent, General Partners of Accelerate-IT Ventures (AITV) and David Beirne.


Progressly is a SaaS platform that enables the likes of Wells Fargo to standardise and centralise processes.


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