Trading Places: Standard Chartered taps Credit Suisse’s Drew; BNY promotes Templeton to run securities finance; Citi appoints co-heads of funds business; RJO promotes Wright to run fixed income.

Trading Places

People Moves as 2021 turned into 2022

ASSET MANAGEMENT:

Standard Chartered hires sustainability head Drew Standard Chartered has appointed Marisa Drew as its new chief sustainability officer (CSO), joining from Credit Suisse.

Effective from July 1, Drew will chair the group sustainability forum, drive its net zero commitments and oversee the existing sustainable finance and sustainability strategy teams, the bank said.

Based in London, she will report to Simon Cooper, CEO, corporate, commercial & institutional banking, and join its management team.

Neuberger Berman nabs Franklin Templeton equities expert Neuberger Berman has appointed Nicole Vettise as managing director and client portfolio manager for equities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Emea).

In the newly-created role, she is based in London and reports to Dik van Lomwel, head of Emea and Latin America at Neuberger Berman, and Doug Kramer, head of institutional equity and multi-asset at Neuberger Berman.

Commenting on her appointment, van Lomwel, said: “With portfolio managers now located in Japan, China and more in Europe, along with advances to our global research, data science and ESG capabilities, we are building on our long history of equity management.”

American Century nabs Schroders’ sustainability head American Century Investments has hired Schroders’ sustainability expert Sarah Bratton Hughes as its head of ESG and sustainable investing.

Based in New York, she joined the investment manager on January 3 to lead the firm’s ESG and investment stewardship team efforts.

In her new role, Bratton Hughes is responsible for executing the firm’s sustainable investing strategy, as well as the management of its ESG research platform and active ownership practices.

Her team is also in charge of firmwide ESG research and training, innovating ESG assessment tools, and managing the ESG engagement and proxy voting protocol, as well as driving sustainable investment initiatives and client solutions.

SECURITIES FINANCE:

Fidelity boosts agency lending with hire from State Street Fidelity Investments has appointed Ryan Joyce as a senior international equity trader within its agency lending division.

A Fidelity spokesperson told Global Investor that Joyce will focus on the management and distribution of the international equity book of business during Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) trading hours.

Based in Boston, he will also focus on expanding existing distribution channels and opening new opportunities in the Asia-Pacific and EMEA regions.

BNY Mellon promotes Templeton to run securities finance sales BNY Mellon has promoted John Templeton to global head of securities finance sales and relationship management, in a newly created role.

Based in New York, Templeton reports to Bill Kelly, global head of agency securities finance, and Mark Haas, global head of principal securities finance, a BNY Mellon spokesperson told Global Investor.

Templeton has spent the past two decades at BNY Mellon as head of financial institutions, intermediaries and market groups since March 2000.

WeMatch hires Tellez as CFO from JP Morgan WeMatch has hired former JP Morgan veteran Guillaume Tellez as the new

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chief financial officer of the securities finance tech firm.

Prior to joining the London-based fintech, Tellez spent a decade at JP Morgan in various roles including M&A from 2011 to 2013 and investor relations from 2013 to 2016 in the bank’s London and New York offices respectively.

From 2016 to April 2021, he led all principal strategic investments in European start-ups at JP Morgan, until he most recently became head of partnerships for international consumers.

CUSTODY:

Citi’s Crowe to co-lead fund services with Panjwani Dominic Crowe, Citi’s former managing director, head of custody and funds business for North America, has been appointed in a global product role to focus on the fund services as part of a management reshuffle at the US bank.

Crowe has also been promoted to co-lead the funds business alongside Pervaiz Panjwani, managing director, custody and fund services head for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Emea).

Rebekah Flohr replaced him as head of custody for North America, effective January 1, joining from Deutsche Bank where she served for more than two years as head of securities services.

Standard Chartered appoints tech, ops and transformation officer Standard Chartered has appointed Roel Louwhoff as chief technology, operations and transformation officer.

Based in Singapore, Louwhoff will lead the bank’s transformation, operations and technology agenda from April 1.

Louwhoff joined Standard Chartered on November 1 as group chief digital, technology and innovation officer, leading the bank’s technology

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strategy and the development of its technology systems and infrastructure.

Deutsche hires ex-BNY Mellon exec to Asian team Deutsche Bank has hired former BNY head of Asian product Mathew Kathayanat as head of securities services product management for Asia Pacific (APAC), effective immediately.

Based in Singapore, he reports to Anand Rengarajan, head of securities services for APAC at Deutsche Bank, and Mike Clarke, global head of product management at Deutsche Bank.

Rengarajan said: “Asia Pacific continues to be a key and strategically critical region for our Securities Services business globally.”

DERIVATIVES:

Marex’s global head of energy to leave firm Marex’s global head of energy is set to leave the firm to be replaced by the broker’s North American head of energy, marking a key change at Marex after a period of volatility in the energy markets.

Jeremy Elliott, who joined the British broker as its global head of energy in September 2013, is leaving the firm and has been replaced with immediate effect by Matt Thistle, formerly Marex’s head of energy in North America.

Elliott joined Marex from ICAP, the London-based inter-dealer broker where he worked in commodities for almost five years.

RJ O’Brien promotes Wright to run global fixed income R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO) has promoted Amber Wright to the new post of global head of fixed income in a move aimed at expanding the broker’s rates business.

Wright is now the firm’s global head of fixed income rates and e-trading sales.

She is based in London but has responsibilities across all of RJO’s global affiliates to expand institutional fixed income products and build cross asset algorithmic trading functionality.

Former CFTC chair Giancarlo takes Digital Asset role Chris Giancarlo, the former head of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has joined Digital Asset as a member of the fintech’s board of directors.

Giancarlo was chair of the CFTC between 2014 and 2019, overseeing a period of market structure change for the US derivatives markets. He has since held several advisory and board level positions at firms such as Nomura and the American Financial Exchange.

“We are on the precipice of a digital economic transformation that will necessitate safe and secure ways for businesses to interconnect and share assets,” Giancarlo said in a statement.

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