Category: Appointments
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PayPal Veteran Jim Magats Becomes CEO Of MX, A Startup That Brings Together Banks And Fintech Companies
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MX, the startup competing with Plaid to connect financial institutions and fintech players, is naming PayPal executive Jim Magats as its new CEO. Magats is an early two-decade PayPal veteran who was recently senior vice president for Omni payments solutions. He replaces Shane Evans, who was named interim CEO in…
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Hometap Establishes FinTech Industry Manager Eugene Wong As Chief Financial Officer
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Hometap, a provider of lending alternatives for homeownership without taking on debt, announced the appointment of Eugene Wong as Chief Financial Officer. Wong will lead Hometap’s finance team in developing strategies for acquiring and launching new financial products and services. He joins Hometap from forwarding Financing, a Boston-based fintech company…
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Klaus Meyer Takes Over The Commercial Finance Business At SFS
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Klaus Meyer is taking over as Head of the Commercial Finance business of Siemens Financial Services in Germany. The 42-year-old manager joins Siemens Financial Services (SFS) from Commerz Real Mobilienleasing GmbH in Düsseldorf. He has already been working for the financial services provider since June 1, 2022, and is to…
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Isabella Frey New Co-Managing Director In Erste Group’s Fintech Unit
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In July, Isabella Frey joined Erste Group‘s in-house fintech unit as a new co-managing director. Frey has been a driving force in the development of the George app, the mobile interface of Erste’s George banking platform, since 2012, according to Erste Group. She now joins fellow managing director Stefan Häbich…
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Former Worldfirst Executive Oliver Whelan Joins UK Fintech Storfund
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After a six-month search, Storfund has appointed Oliver Whelan, previously Worldfirst Global Head of Enterprise, as Chief Revenue Officer. Whelan, who spent ten years at payments fintech Worldfirst, will be responsible for accelerating Storfund’s rapid and profitable growth. This press release contains multimedia content.
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Zurich: Loanboox Hires Former Wefox CEO Oliver Lang
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Zurich-based Swiss FinTech AG d/b/a Loanboox (website) brings German fintech celebrities onto its board of directors. The financing platform is also expanding its team in its northern neighbor. The German-Swiss insurtech Wefox is already considered a valuation unicorn and Loanboox has now been able to recruit former Wefox CEO Oliver…
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PPRO CFO Goetz Moeller Replaced By Rahul Raswant!
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The FCA-regulated e-Money Institution PPRO Financial Ltd d/b/a PPRO is controlled by the German PPRO Holding GmbH and has affiliated companies in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. The company was co-founded by the former Wirecard manager Tobias Schreyer in 2011. The German Goetz Moeller has been the CFO…
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Thomas Landis Joins Swiss Sonect As Chief Operations Officer!
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Thomas Landis has been appointed as the operational head of Swiss FinTech Sonect. Landis is considered a pioneer of the Swiss fintech scene. He was involved in the first local payment apps Paymit and Twint, as head of innovation and also headed F10, the incubator of stock exchange operator SIX.…
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FCA-Regulated EMI Pixxles Appoints Salma Kamaly As Director!
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FCA-regulated e-Money Institute (EMI) has appointed Salma Kamaly as an additional director, effective May 23, 2022. Kamaly, born in September 1986, is reportedly a compliance expert who also serves as the sole director of JS Compliance Consultants Limited (JSCC). The company operates a rather strange website with the domain www.jslc.co.uk…