Executive Appointments

SPaN, set up by MAS and the Association of Banks in Singapore to run the national payment schemes, names Derek Chan CEO and Jacqueline Loh chair.

Ying Ying Tan becomes Standard Chartered’s Global Head of Securities Services and Global Head of Digital Assets, succeeding Margaret Harwood-Jones.

Convera appoints Mike Cahill as COO and hires a CTO from PayPal and a product chief from Ticketmaster to build out its money movement platform.

Kansas City Fed COO Kim Robbins, the first chief administrative officer of FedNow, will lead Federal Reserve Financial Services from 16 November.

Swift moves to two tier governance. J.P. Morgan’s Graeme Munro chairs a 15 member Supervisory Board drawn largely from global transaction banks.

Jordan Ahli Bank appoints Suleiman Abu Khader, former Bank al Etihad Iraq CEO and FAB Jordan chief, as Chief Wholesale Banking Officer.

Gillian Tan takes over policy, payments and financial crime at the Monetary Authority of Singapore from 1 November as Loo Siew Yee moves up.