WEX has appointed Jason Hancock as managing director of its international payments division. Hancock has been with the global commerce platform since 2021, serving as senior director strategy, WEX Travel, and managing director, Travel & Corporate Payments, WEX International, according to his LinkedIn profile. In his...
Wells Fargo has reportedly fired more than a dozen workers accused of faking work. These employees, all part of the banking giant’s wealth/investment management arm, were “discharged after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work,” Bloomberg News reported Thursday...
Samsung is reportedly hiring a former Apple executive to run its new artificial intelligence research center. Heading the operation will be Apple veteran Murat Akbacak, who was “responsible for defining and executing the strategy for Siri, Apple’s personal digital assistant, focusing on personalization, contextualization and...
British payments company Checkout.com has a new chief operating officer. Jenny Hadlow, who had been heading the company’s revenue operations team, will be promoted to the COO position, chief executive Guillaume Pousaz said in an announcement published Wednesday (June 12). “Jenny has a unique perspective...
MoneyGram International has appointed former Driven Brands chief financial officer (CFO) Gary W. Ferrera as its CFO. Ferrera succeeds Larry Angelilli, who has retired after more than 12 years with MoneyGram, the company said in a Monday (June 10) press release. In his new role,...
OpenAI has named a new chief financial officer (CFO) and a new chief product officer (CPO) as it prepares for its “next phase of growth.” Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor, has joined OpenAI as CFO, and Kevin Weil, former president, product and business at Planet Labs, has joined...
JPMorgan Chase has reportedly named former PayPal executive Sri Shivananda as its chief technology officer. Shivananda will take up the CTO post later this month and succeed A.J. Lang, who announced his retirement earlier this year, Reuters reported Monday (June 10), citing an internal memo. The new CTO — who...
Digital wallet provider Curve has appointed Nancy Yaffa as its USA CEO and Reeta K. Holmes as its new board member. These appointments come at a time when Curve, which is active in 31 markets across the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (EEA),...
Takis Georgakopoulos, JPMorgan Chase’s global head of payments, is reportedly leaving the banking giant. Georgakopoulos, who has headed that division since 2017, will step down to pursue other ventures, Reuters reported Monday (June 3), citing an internal memo. According to the report, Max Neukirchen and...
