Boku promoted longtime executive Stuart Neal to head of the mobile payments company. Neal has been serving as Boku’s CEO designate since July of last year, when outgoing CEO John Prideaux announced his plans to retire, the London-based company said in a news release Thursday...
Hawk AI appointed HSBC veteran Michael Shearer as chief solution officer. Shearer spent much of his career at HSBC, including serving as the bank’s group head of compliance product management, Hawk AI said in a Tuesday (Jan. 16) press release. In that role, he helped...
Atos’ CEO resigned following a disagreement over governance of the French tech firm. Yves Bernaert is leaving the company after “an intense period of transformation for which the board is thankful,” the company announced in a Monday (Jan. 15) press release. Taking his place will...
Embedded lending platform Versatile Credit has named a new finance chief and new engineering head. Max Rieck, a veteran of companies such as Fiserv and Pineapple Payments, is joining Versatile as chief financial officer, the company announced Monday (Jan. 15). “His expertise in scaling financial operations and integrating strategic initiatives...
Instagram has reportedly told 60 technical program managers that they must find another job at the company or be let go in two months. The Meta-owned social networking app is eliminating a management layer as part of its parent company’s ongoing efforts to boost efficiency, Seeking Alpha reported Friday...
Ally Financial named its president of dealer financial services, Douglas Timmerman, as its interim CEO. Timmerman will assume the role Feb. 1, following the departure of current CEO Jeffrey J. Brown Jan. 31, the company said in a Friday (Jan. 12) press release. Ally Financial...
InvestCloud, a global provider of wealth and asset management solutions, has announced the appointment of Jeffery W. Yabuki as its new chairman and CEO. Yabuki brings extensive experience in the financial technology industry and will lead InvestCloud’s strategy and operations, InvestCloud said in a Wednesday (Jan. 10) press...
Item-level receipt data platform Banyan has named financial industry veteran Alpesh Chokshi as president. Chokshi, whose appointment was announced Tuesday (Jan. 9), joins Banyan following a stint as global head of business development for personal banking and wealth at Citi. He has also held positions at Visa and American...
India-based digital payments company PhonePe has appointed TerraPay veteran Ritesh Pai as CEO — International Payments, saying he will lead the company’s global expansion plans. “Ritesh has been an early believer and staunch supporter of the company and was very instrumental in our early UPI[Unified...
