Financial Services
Lloyds has hired ING CTO Ron van Kemenade as COO. Starting June 2023 he will lead a new technology and data strategy at Britain’s biggest domestic bank, under new CEO Charlie Nunn – who joined from HSBC in 2021. The hire comes as Lloyds said that it is exploring the
HSBC is looking for a Chief Information Officer (CIO) responsible for improving the internal digital experience of the approximately 200,000 staff that use over 800 different “internally facing colleague systems”. The recruitment effort will be welcomed by the banking multinational’s staff who face a challenging and complex environment
The UK Infrastructure Bank – launched by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in June 2021 to provide £22 billion in infrastructure finance – is looking for a Chief Operating Officer (COO), who will also be responsible for IT. The UK Infrastructure Bank is currently operating without its full suite of staff and
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Six years after an exercise flagged the risks of a “prolonged technical outage” in the core settlement engine of the Bank of England, efforts to “seek to understand and mitigate legal barriers” to one proposed mitigation are unfinished – although progress on a core hardware and software replacement continues to make
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York settled cross-border FX spot trades in under 10 seconds using distributed ledger technology (DLT) under tests as part of its “Project Cedar” it revealed today. Critically, the trades were conducted across a "multi-ledger ecosystem" it added. The New York Fed conducted
Multinational takes stake in Partior, joins DLT network, to offer EUR settlements...