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Burton-Taylor hires Bailey as research director

Brad Bailey, the former head of market intelligence for fintech company Clear Street, has joined consultancy Burton-Taylor following a more than 20-year career in capital markets strategy and technology.

Along with his work at Clear Street, Bailey was the research director for Celent as well as a senior consultant at Oliver Wyman. He also held analyst, trading, business development, and strategy roles at investment banks and broker-dealers, including the predecessor of Virtu Financial and RBC Carlin.

At Burton-Taylor, Bailey will report to CEO and managing director Bob Iati. He will be responsible for managing the consultancy’s research business and will provide clients with a greater level of insight into the market data and financial technology businesses.

Bank of London appoints Woodhead as chief product officer

The Bank of London announced the appointment of Frankie Woodhead as chief product officer, effective immediately. Woodhead will be responsible for overseeing product vision, development and delivery across the UK bank and group. He joins the Bank of London from 10x Banking, where he was a vice president and general manager.

Frankie joins the bank with 15 years of senior leadership experience across business, corporate and retail banking in global tier-one financial services at Barclays and cloud-native digital banking technology provider 10x Banking. His roles at Barclays included product director positions spanning small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) lending, growth, authentication, payments, and customer servicing.

Instinet announces Milligan as president and head of the Americas

Instinet, the independent equity trading arm of investment bank Nomura, announced that Gerry Milligan has been appointed president and head of the Americas. Milligan re-joins the company from Credit Suisse, where he was head of electronic products for the Americas.

Versana hires Scaffidi and Fonte as head of product and head of sales

Syndicated loan trading platform Versana has hired Christine Scaffidi as head of product and Christopher Fonte as head of sales. Scaffidi most recently worked as senior principal product manager for corporate and syndicated lending at Finastra, while Fonte joins from Amazon Web Services. Both new hires will report directly to Cynthia Sachs, Versana’s CEO.

BlueFlame hires four industry veterans

BlueFlame, a generative AI platform for alternative investment managers, announced it has appointed four industry veterans to bolster its business strategy and operations groups. Justin Guthrie has joined as chief financial and strategy officer from his previous role as COO at ACA Group. James Tedman joins, also from ACA Group, as BlueFlame’s new head of Europe and head of information security.

Michael Donnelly has been announced as the new head of client success, joining from Eze Software, a unit of SS&C Technologies, where he was global head of client success. Finally, Mauri Lowery has been hired as director of executive operations. Lowery joins from ACA Group, where she was senior manager of executive operations and internal communications.

Mirova invests in US team

Paris-based sustainable investment manager Mirova has hired Stéphane Detobel and Francis Verpoucke as part of the company’s Mirova US team.

The pair will be based in New York and report to Zineb Bennani, CEO of Mirova US Both Detobel and Verpoucke have worked together at Tobam as managing directors in North America.

Capco chooses Spicer as partner for US FRC business

Technology and management consultancy Capco appointed Kit Spicer as a partner in its US finance, risk, and compliance (FRC) practice.

Spicer joins Capco from BlockFi, where he was head of credit risk and underwriting. Prior to BlockFi, he held financial risk management positions at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Oliver Wyman. Spicer will be responsible for building out Capco’s capital markets front-office risk propositions and enhancing its existing Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) and stress-testing solutions.

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