Standard Chartered has named longtime executive David Rego as its new head of payments. The London-based financial services firm announced the appointment in a news release provided to PYMNTS Monday (Dec. 12), saying Rego will oversee the transformation of the company’s payments business. Rego has...
J.P. Morgan Payments has a new head for its EMEA acquiring platforms/rails operations. Pat Brolly, a 25-year veteran of the financial services sector, was tapped earlier this month to oversee the bank’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) acquiring platforms and rails for its payments...
PayU has appointed Keren Ben Zvi as head of data of its global payment organization (GPO). The online payment service provider said in a Wednesday (Dec. 7) press release that Ben Zvi would take the lead on further enhancing merchant insights and leveraging merchants’ payment data to...
NatWest Group has announced the appointment of Mark Brant as the chief payments officer (CPO) of NatWest. In a statement emailed to PYMNTS, NatWest Group said that the payment industry veteran will join the group on Jan. 16. Brant will report to Paul Thwaite, CEO of NatWest’s commercial and...
Payments and card service company Transact Payments has named Aaron Carpenter as its new CEO. The company announced the appointment in a news release Tuesday (Nov. 29), saying Carpenter would be responsible for supporting “the diversification of its product offering” while helping Transact grow. Carpenter has been...
Financial services technology provider FIS reportedly plans to cut “several thousand” staffers and contractors from a workforce that numbered about 65,000 at the end of last year. The move follows a 44% drop in FIS’ shares this year and the announcement that the company’s current...
Carvana is making changes to its staff in response to a growing trend of Big Tech and eCommerce businesses reevaluating their revenues, as well as a drop in the used-car retail market. A representative from the company confirmed with PYMNTS Friday (Nov. 18) that it...
Subscription commerce platform provider sticky.io has appointed Spencer Watts as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Watts moves to the company from WooCommerce, where he served as both CFO and chief operating officer (COO) and increased profitability, strengthened financial operations and helped raise investments, sticky.io said Tuesday (Nov. 15)...
J.P. Morgan Payments is appointing Ludovic Houri as its new co-head of EMEA payments and commerce solutions, according to a Wednesday (Nov. 16) press release emailed to PYMNTS. Before coming to J.P. Morgan, Houri was the CEO of Dalenys, a Belgian payment platform, and vice...
