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fter more than10 years as the CMO for TCS Financial Solutions – primarily advancing the very
highly regarded TCS BaNCS brand around the world – TCS has promoted Dennis Roman to the position of global head – products and platforms marketing. Over these past years TCS has successfully replicated the TCS BaNCS model and launched scores of new products and platforms businesses for various industries and decided to consolidate the worldwide marketing of those business under Roman’s strong leadership.
The New Payment System Operator (NPSO) has announced the appointment of Geoff Close as chief risk offi cer, as it moves closer to taking responsibility for the UK’s retail payment systems. Close, who is currently interim COO and CRO at the NPSO, has more than 20 years of experience as a business and technology leader at major UK institutions. His experience has been gained in retail, commercial and institutional banking sectors with a particular focus on fi nancial technology. He has previously held CRO roles at GE Capital and FIS, where he was also COO.
Close’s appointment is the third C-Suite position confi rmed by the NPSO in recent weeks. In February it was announced that Matthew Hunt, currently COO for the Monetary Policy area at the Bank of England, will take on the role of the NPSO’s COO, while Jenny Crawford, currently deputy CEO of UK Payments Administration (UKPA), has been appointed as chief people offi cer.
Cinnober has appointed Hans Sjöberg as its new chief technology offi cer and Taraneh Derayati as new head of sales.
Sjöberg’s experience encompasses
various developer roles at investment banks such as Lehman Brothers and Nomura. He joined Cinnober in 2012 when Cinnober acquired Nomura’s Swedish technology development subsidiary. His previous roles at Cinnober include technical project manager and solutions architect in high-profi le projects such as the delivery of LME Clear’s real- time clearing system and a new cross- asset risk solution for Japan Exchange Group (JPX).
transformation. Both come from leading US technology companies and will work in Santander Digital, the division tasked with accelerating the group’s digital transformation across its 10 core markets.
Patel will be responsible for evolving that business with innovative customer experiences and partnerships, in light of the rapidly-changing payments landscape. Chirag joins Santander from Amazon, where he was head of emerging payments and innovation, based in Seattle. He previously held executive positions at American Express and Softcard, a startup acquired by Google.
Resendiz will be responsible for helping raise the bar on simple, elegant user experiences, in line with rising customer expectations. In addition, he will lead the New Ventures unit tasked with creating new businesses to accelerate future growth. Before joining Santander, Resendiz was at NCR corporation serving as head of global fi nancial services solutions; previously he also served as chief innovation offi cer and also as general manager for the Digital Insight digital banking business serving more than 15 million digital banking users.
Derayati has been with Cinnober since 2009. She has been integral to a number of client projects as business analyst and project manager, and has led several large client acquisition projects. Most recently she was in charge of delivering Cinnober’s real-time clearing system to JPX, which went live in February this year.
Banco Santander has announced two leadership appointments: Chirag Patel as head of payments and Jose Resendiz as head of user experience and New Ventures, to further accelerate its digital
Mastercard has announced the appointment of Ann Cairns as vice chairman, effective 1 June. Gilberto Caldart succeeds her as president, International. Both will report to Ajay Banga, president and CEO.
Prior to joining Mastercard, Cairns served as the head of Alvarez & Marsal’s fi nancial industry services group in London, where she led the European team managing Lehman Brothers Holdings International through the Chapter 11 process.
Earlier, Cairns was CEO, transaction
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