People Moves: Cboe, Esma, ASIC, State Street, NeoXam, and more

Cboe’s CTO resigns

According to an 8-k filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Cboe Global Markets CTO Eric Crampton intends to resign on January 14, 2022 … to pursue another career opportunity.” No additional information was provided.

Thedéen appointed vice chair of Esma

The board of supervisors of the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has appointed Erik Thedéen vice chair. Thedéen, who is the director general of Finansinspektionen, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, will serve a 2.5-year term, effective immediately.  

He replaces Anneli Tuominen, director general of the Finnish Finanssivalvonta, who has completed her term.

Thedéen has served in his role at the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, an integrated authority supervising the banking, insurance, and securities sectors in Sweden, since 2015. He is a voting member in the European Systemic Risk Board and is also the chair of the task force on sustainable finance for the International Organization of Securities Commissions (Iosco).

ASIC announces senior and regional appointments

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced senior executive and regional appointments. Zak Hammer will serve as executive director of operations, Peter Dunlop as CFO, and Nicole Collins as chief people officer. They will all report to ASIC COO Warren Day.

Hammer joins ASIC from Inform Software Corp. Australia, where she served as a director. She was previously head of office of the group chief information officer at Qantas. Dunlop joins from Sport Australia where he served as CFO. Collins joins from the Australian Taxation Office, where she was an assistant commissioner.

ASIC has also confirmed appointments to the roles of regional commissioner in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. The regional commissioners support ASIC’s staff locally and maintain relationships with local stakeholders, including state governments, business, and consumer groups.

Mark Adams has been appointed as regional commissioner for New South Wales. Adams will take on this role in addition to his existing role as senior executive leader of strategic intelligence and coordinator of ASIC’s Innovation Hub. John Wallace has been appointed regional commissioner for Victoria. He will also continue to serve as senior executive leader of specialist services. Rhian Richards has been appointed regional commissioner for Western Australia. Richards will take on this role in addition to her existing role in the Modernizing Business Registers (MBR) program.

State Street Global Advisors creates ESG investment strategist role in Asia-Pacific

State Street Global Advisors, State Street’s asset management business, has appointed Xinting Jia as ESG investment strategist for Asia-Pacific.

In a newly created role, Jia will report globally to Karen Wong, global head of ESG and sustainable investing, and regionally to Michele Barlow, head of strategy and research for Asia-Pacific. Based in Melbourne, Jia will work closely with clients in Asia-Pacific to support the firm’s ESG investment strategies and develop bespoke solutions to address ESG and performance goals.

She joins from CareSuper, an industry superannuation fund in Australia, where she was an ESG specialist, leading the firm’s ESG policy formation, implementation, and stewardship. Prior to that, she was head of Asia for responsible investment at Mercer Investments. At Mercer, Jia advised and helped Asian institutional investors integrate ESG factors into their investment processes.

Ex-State Street COO joins NeoXam as managing director

Software vendor NeoXam has announced the appointment of former State Street France COO Bruno Noyon as managing director for the region of Emea West. This region encompasses major financial centers in France, Italy, Luxembourg, and Spain. Noyon will be responsible for overseeing over 100 consultants and a distribution team.

Noyon was most recently managing director of IQ-EQ France and CEO of Equitis Gestion. Prior to this, he spent over 15 years as COO and senior vice president of State Street’s global servicing business in France. He was also previously the global head of performance and data management at AXA Investment Managers.

Wilshire announces Masters as chair of new Digital Assets Advisory Group

Wilshire, a global investment technology and advisory company, announced the formation of the Wilshire Digital Asset Advisory Group. Blythe Masters, founding partner at Motive Partners and an expert in financial services, technology, and digital assets, will serve as chair.

The advisory group brings together digital asset practitioners to capture their collective perspectives and insights. The next step is to deliver an industry standard digital assets taxonomy system (DATS). Working with Digital Asset Research (DAR), a provider of crypto data and research, the Advisory Group has developed a comprehensive methodology for the classification of digital assets. DATS allows the industry to categorize, manage, and research digital asset technologies by identifying common usage types and underlying technologies, as well as investment themes.

The Advisory Group will review DATS classification decisions on a quarterly basis as the digital asset market continues to evolve.

Transcend appoints Hodgin as global head of product

Transcend, a provider of liquidity, funding, and collateral technology, has named former senior advisor Todd Hodgin as global head of product. In this new role, Hodgin will be responsible for driving Transcend’s product innovation and designing a technology roadmap.

Prior to joining Transcend, Hodgin spent more than 15 years at Wells Fargo, most recently serving as executive vice president of enterprise business process management and operational design. During his tenure at Wells Fargo, he led a variety of risk management organizations and initiatives that addressed credit, operational, compliance, liquidity, and market risk.