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Petri Nikkilä, a former ING exec, will join Santander in May as CEO of its digital bank offering Openbank and head of Digital Consumer Bank's non-auto consumer business. https://axios.link/3Utm3Su

Michelle Prance was named CEO of Mettle, NatWest's digital bank for small businesses and the self-employed. She succeeds Andy Ellis, who has become CEO of NatWest's BaaS business NatWest Boxed. https://axios.link/3vUbei8

Colin Fyfe joined U.K.-based Unity Trust Bank (UTB) as CEO. He succeeds Deborah Hazell, who resigned at year-end. https://axios.link/488f2Kj

Charlie Minutella, formerly with the London Stock Exchange Group, was named CEO of Data Zoo, succeeding founder Tony Fitzgibbon, who will shift to chairman and chief strategy officer. https://axios.link/4bCcpmU

Eugene "Geno" Paluso was named CEO of software company Sagent. https://axios.link/49yrKTx

Dax Dasilva, former CEO of e-commerce and point-of-sale provider Lightspeed Commerce, returned as chief executive. He succeeds Jean Paul Chauvet, who had held the position since 2022. https://axios.link/3woU2BP

Brandon Black was named CEO at Mission Lane. He has served on the board since 2019. https://axios.link/49yX7xi

Brian Brodie will take over as CEO of U.K.-based lender Bevan Money, succeeding founder Mel Lane, who is transitioning into the role of deputy CEO. Brodie was previously group CEO of Freedom Finance. https://axios.link/42IPzWE

Navin Gupta, former managing director of Ripple, became CEO of Crystal Blockchain. He succeeds Marina Khaustova, who will become COO. https://axios.link/49jlW0l

Udi Ziv was named CEO of Personetics, succeeding co-founder David Sosna, who is stepping down. https://axios.link/3UK8UEL

Sarah Kocianski was named CEO of independent membership association FinTech Wales. https://axios.link/48tLruK

Greg "Garga" Solano, co-founder of Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs, will return as CEO. He succeeds former Activision executive Daniel Alegre, who spent less than a year at the helm. https://axios.link/3IezVIV

Chris Bayliss, deputy CEO and chief relationship officer at Judo Bank, was named CEO and managing director. He succeeds Joseph Healy, who is stepping down after seven years as CEO. https://axios.link/3wz4TJe

Rhee Eun-mi, former DGB Daegu Bank chief, was named CEO of South Korean challenger Toss Bank. https://axios.link/3OWMKeV

Dhivya Suryadevara, former Stripe CFO, joined UnitedHealth Group as CEO of Optum Financial Services. https://axios.link/4c2Tu4W

Simon James, former co-president of PayComplete, was named CEO. https://axios.link/3UPlLFT

Neeraj Kapur, former CFO of Vanquis Banking Group, was named CEO of CAB Payments after current CEO Bhairav Trivedi announced plans to step down in March. https://axios.link/3wwRyRU

Joe Endoso, formerly CFO at OTCXN, was named CEO of Linqto. Also, Geno Zawrotny was named chief revenue officer. https://www.linqto.com/

Kensuke Amo, most recently managing executive officer at Coincheck, joined Animoca Brands as COO. https://axios.link/49eD86W

Noel Calhoun, former CTO of Onsights.io, joined Canoe Intelligence as CTO. https://axios.link/492SxHG

Steve Christie, former senior vice president of compliance at Binance, will return to the company as deputy chief compliance officer after leaving for health and family reasons. https://axios.link/3w4dxzo

Tom Holman, former head of product for payment acceptance at Stripe, joined Flex as CPO. https://axios.link/3umDmKo

Rob Wright was named chief product officer at eCapital after serving as chief product officer for Triumph Financial. https://axios.link/49m0jfJ

Maggie Luo was named CFO at Fin Capital. She was previously CFO at Formation Group. https://axios.link/49qKowq

Conor O'Kane was named CIO of MyComplianceOffice. https://axios.link/497K2ex

Jodi Cartwright, formerly at Hiscox, joined Tint Financial Services as chief commercial officer. tintfs.com

Mark Haines, former CTO of Brewin Dolphin, joined wealth management firm JM Finn as COO. https://axios.link/3uvpi1n

At Auckland-based JAVLN, Rosalie Lau was named group chief financial officer and Peter Waring was named group chief technology officer. https://axios.link/3I41eFK

Tradeshift appointed Iain Balchin CFO. He was previously interim CFO at crypto payments platform Ramp Network. https://axios.link/3UMggI9

Eisar Lipkovitz was named chief product officer at Rippling. He was previously chief information officer of corporate and investment banking at JPMorgan. https://axios.link/4bAhw71

Simon Guest, formerly CEO at Generali Vitality, was named chief commercial officer at health insurtech company CareVoice. https://axios.link/3SG52Cj

Annika Poutiainen and Georg Kaltenbrunner will join Trustly as chief legal officer and group risk and compliance officer, respectively. https://axios.link/49EJmNP

Andrew Steadman, a former Temenos and Fiserv executive, joined Sopra Banking Software as chief product officer. https://axios.link/48DbIXT

Mark Sundt, formerly cloud computing solutions architect at Microsoft, joined Stax Payments as CTO, succeeding Chris Staymates, who will return to his role as chief innovation officer. https://axios.link/4abk8XF

Erica Gee was named COO of Atlanta-based payments firm NXTMoves. https://axios.link/4bI4hRL

Jatin Rajput was named CFO of MPower Financing, succeeding Rob Partlow, who is retiring from the position and joining the board of directors. https://axios.link/3SQQ5x8

Michael Meston was named chief human resources officer at Green Dot (NYSE: GDOT). https://axios.link/4bTANQU

Jeffrey Taylor was named chief strategy officer at Arturo. He was previously at Verisk. https://axios.link/3UVRZ2m

Barrett Schiwitz, formerly an SVP at Snap One, joined Finnish fintech Basware as chief information officer. Anssi Ruokonen was named director of AI research and enablement. https://axios.link/3V0fJlN

Geoff Seeley, formerly with Cash App and Afterpay, joined PayPal as chief marketing officer. https://axios.link/3SYivVY

Gary Delaney joined BNY Mellon as international CISO. https://axios.link/4bToLXF

Alex Rampell, partner at a16z, was named a director at Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT). https://axios.link/3UokgOx

Joanne McEnteggart was named global head of debt, capital markets and corporate at IQ-EQ. https://axios.link/49lNDWi

Michael Stein was named global head of manager research for liquid strategies and hedge funds at Citi. His appointment follows the exit of Jeff Sutton, who was previously global head of portfolio solutions and manager of research. https://axios.link/48ZB9Ur

Rahul Buxani, Shal Chowdhury, Matthew Schneider and Ted Conway were hired as managing directors for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods' fintech and financial services group. https://axios.link/42vwuaj

Jim Hinchley was named president of insurance at Fairmatic. https://axios.link/42tlqdG

Bas van Donselaar was named co-head of PaymentGenes' consulting practice. https://axios.link/48anwQO

Markus Hornburg was named SVP for global compliance at AP automation firm Basware. https://axios.link/48c3iGq

Jennifer (Jen) Taylor was named president at Plaid. She was previously at Cloudflare, where she was chief product officer. https://axios.link/3SQecgH

Aaron Elliott-Gross, former group head of financial crime and fraud at Revolut, left to join Wise as its global director of product compliance. https://axios.link/483ueIs

Na Wei was named global head of leveraged finance at Barclays. https://axios.link/4bxJosC

Michelleta ("Mich") Razon, formerly VP, general manager and head of commerce at Google Cloud, joined MetLife (NYSE: MET) as head of data enablement. https://axios.link/48hlyyn

Alicia Forry was named head of ESG for alternative investments at Investec. https://axios.link/3OIY4ei

Mathew Schulz, formerly of Forrester, was named VP of procurement strategy at Airbase. www.airbase.com

Michael Buono and Phil Germann were named directors within the capital markets division at Nasdaq Private Market. www.nasdaqprivatemarket.com

Ladan Stewart, a leader in the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit of the SEC, is leaving the agency to join international law firm White & Case, where she will help build its crypto and cyber defense practice. https://axios.link/3I9BEiS

Viswas Raghavan, formerly JPMorgan's head of global investment banking, joined Citigroup as head of global banking. https://axios.link/42XhceQ

Sameer Murukutla was named managing director of global investor relations at TradeWeb. https://axios.link/3uMJMmi

Nils Röver joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a partner in Germany. https://www.willkie.com/

Michael Pappas, former general counsel at Foodsmart, joined Nixon Gwilt Law as a partner. Also at NGL, Kevin Joyce, William Reynolds and Eileen Gorman were appointed senior attorneys. axios.link/4bSQYxM

Brian Miner was named partner in Dechert LLP's corporate and securities practice group. https://axios.link/49y68qG

Steve Clifford was named managing director at Carofin. https://axios.link/4309Y9B

💼 New hires

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Binu Paul, former head of digital assets at U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), was appointed independent consultant at trade association CryptoUK. cryptouk.io

Saima Shaukat was appointed to the advisory board of Ascend. https://axios.link/48aViFV

Debra M. Paul and Angel Taveras were appointed to the board of directors at Washington Trust Bancorp (Nasdaq: WASH). https://axios.link/3OGlO2Y

Jonathan Sokobin was appointed chair of FINRA Foundation's board of directors. Jason Fichtner, Ellen Frawley and Paul Roye were also appointed members of the board. https://axios.link/3Sxj6xM

Fraser Matthews was appointed to the board of directors at BIGG Digital Assets after joining the team as president of Netcoins in 2022. https://axios.link/3OGJNyZ

Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, former CEO of Virgin Money, was appointed board chair of Ozone API. https://axios.link/3T8htrZ

Bob Wigley, chair of the trade body UK Finance, joined the board of blockchain services provider R3 as a non-executive director. https://axios.link/49rZgeE

Mark Sismey-Durrant, former CEO of Sun Bank and Heritable Bank, joined U.K. challenger GB Bank as chair. He succeeds Mike Kirsopp, who has left the company. https://axios.link/3uCAEAQ

Doug Braunstein, a former finance chief at JPMorgan Chase, joined Wells Fargo as vice chairman. https://axios.link/3STpGPi

🗳️ Elections and appointments

Asher Genoot, former Hut 8 president and a member of its board, became CEO. He succeeds Jaime Leverton, who departed after working as its CEO since December 2020. https://axios.link/3UrrVfc

Thomas Legendre was promoted to associate director of Value Partners Group's EMEA business. www.valuepartners-group.com

Crystal Dionne was promoted from CFO to CEO at Primary Bank. https://axios.link/4bAOzI8

Paul Thwaite, who had served as interim CEO at NatWest, will take over on a permanent basis. He succeeds Alison Rose, who resigned in July after discussing the closure of Nigel Farage's account with a journalist. https://axios.link/42IQg2c

Dominik Ulrich was promoted from head of internal audit to chief risk officer of Wefox. https://axios.link/49oX33v

Matthew Kimber was promoted from chief operating officer at Molo Finance to CEO. https://axios.link/4bISqD3

📢 Promotions

Tony Bowen, CFO at H&R Block, will retire in September. https://axios.link/3HRCLnm

Mike Clayville, chief customer officer at Stripe, left the payments giant last month. https://axios.link/3UuJKtV

Nicholas Munson, NYCB's head of risk, left the struggling community bank this year. https://axios.link/49H7AqL

Rod Ashley, CEO of Alba Bank, stepped down after six years at the helm. Jonathan Thompson, formerly chief commercial officer, became acting CEO. https://axios.link/3SDPXBa

Eric Mouilleron, CEO of BaaS provider Bankable, stepped down after 13 years in the role. https://axios.link/48hg1I6

Aaron Karczmer, EVP and chief enterprise services officer at PayPal, will depart the company April 30. https://axios.link/3OIZl5h

Duncan Cockburn, CEO of U.K. fintech OneBanx, stepped down. He is joining automotive insurtech Zego as interim finance director. https://axios.link/49bW1b5

Nick Harding, CEO of U.K. consumer lender Fluro, is stepping down. https://axios.link/4bXzVuO

Deutsche Bank plans to cut about 3,500 jobs to reduce costs. https://axios.link/3udt1Ax

Polygon Labs is laying off 60 employees, or about 19% of staff, CEO Marc Boiron announced in a post to X. https://axios.link/3SHPrDb

Worldline could lay off as much as 8% of its global workforce in an effort to reduce the firm's annual cost base by about €200m by 2025. https://axios.link/3UtXKEd

🛫 Departures and layoffs

Welcome to the February edition! Axios Pro Deals research associate Natalie Breymeyer here with your monthly recap of who's working where now.

Did you or a friend recently change jobs? Let us know. Get wind of layoffs somewhere? Tell us. How do you tell us? Hit reply.

Read below to find New hires; Elections and appointments; Promotions; and Departures.

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There you have it. Make sure to continue sending us your personnel-related news throughout the month.

🧘‍♀️ Natalie's February highlights include regularly going to hot yoga and finding the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe.

✏️ Special thanks to Rob Reinalda for copy editing and George Moriarty for editing this newsletter.

March 02, 2024

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