People Moves: Eurex, BNP Paribas, ClauseMatch, Capitolis, Gleif, BTIG, Asset Control

Michael Peters Takes Over as CEO at Eurex Frankfurt

Michael Peters has been appointed as CEO of Eurex Frankfurt. Peters has been a member of the executive board of Eurex Frankfurt since 2006, and a deputy CEO of the firm since 2016.

Previously, he worked at OMX AB in Stockholm, now a part of Nasdaq, as head of projects as well as for strategic initiatives between 2001 to 2006. Prior to that, he served as managing director of Trading Technologies in Frankfurt and Chicago, with responsibility for business development. 

He has also held management positions within Deutsche Börse, Eurex and Deutsche Terminbörse, a predecessor of Eurex.

Thomas Book, the previous CEO, has moved over to the company’s supervisory board. He will continue as a member of the management board of Eurex Deutschland. He has also taken on the role of chairman of the management board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Among other new appointments at the firm, Jonas Ullmann has joined its executive board as chief operating officer. His responsibilities include the further development of trading functionalities and ongoing trading operations. 

BNP Paribas Securities Services Announces Dennis Bon as Head of Americas

BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Dennis Bon as head of its Americas region,

Bon will be based in New York and will take over the role from September 2020. He will be responsible for driving the bank’s growth in North and Latin America and continuing to develop its service capabilities in the region.

Bon joined the bank in 2018, previously being based in Paris as head of the depositary and fiduciary services at BNP Paribas Securities Services. Previously he was at J.P. Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank division, where he spent 17 years in several senior executive positions in London and New York.

ClauseMatch Makes Senior Hires For New York Office

Regtech vendor ClauseMatch, a provider of technology for enabling different departments within financial institutions to collaborate on policy documentation, has announced the establishment of a New York office. The office will be staffed by newly appointed customer success manager Elisabeth Elrod Clark and senior vice president of sales Rich Heller, who joined the vendor last year.

Clark joined the vendor last month after restructuring a family dairy business, prior to which she was customer success manager at San Francisco-based PubNub, a real-time communications platform for developers.

Heller joined the vendor in December 2019 from Miradeor Lending, a cloud-based lending platform for banks and credit unions, where he was vice president of business development. Prior to that he has held senior roles at AT&T, Signix, and at payroll and tax processing technology vendor SurePayroll.

Both report to head of sales Danny Gal and COO and co-founder Andrey Dokuchaev.

Capitolis Taps Rahul Auradkar as Chief Product Officer

New York-based Capitolis has appointed Rahul Auradkar as its chief product officer.

In his new role Auradkar will lead Capitolis’ product development efforts globally.

Previously, Auradkar was chief product officer of AnsweriQ, a start-up driving customer service automation through machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Among other past roles, he has worked at Microsoft, where he drove the company’s virtualization efforts and led teams in product and engineering.

Capitolis was founded in 2017. Among its co-founders is Tom Glocer, former CEO of Thomson Reuters.

GLEIF Taps Steven A. Joachim As Chairperson of its Board of Directors

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (Gleif) has appointed Steven A. Joachim as the chairperson of its board of directors.

Joachim’s immediate priority will be to support Gleif’s close collaboration with the global banking community to achieve wider LEI (legal identity identifier) usage in banking beyond regulatory reporting, as well as the use of the LEI as a foundation for digitizing unique organizational identities under a regulatory umbrella.   

Joachim was previously executive vice president of transparency services at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He has held seniors roles at a number of organizations such as Merrill Lynch, Smart World Productions, Plural, the Stevens Institute of Technology Hanlon Financial Systems Center, the US Treasury Financial Research Advisory Committee, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Technology Advisory Committee and the International Forum for Investor Education.

BTIG Appoints Samantha Huggins To Leadership Role

BTIG Limited has announced the appointment of Samantha Huggins as managing director and a senior member of its institutional equities division.

Huggins will be based in London with responsibility for growing BTIG’s global customer base, transacting across the firm’s existing equity products in Europe as well as strategically expanding their offering throughout the region.

Huggins has held senior roles at Citigroup and Merrill Lynch.

Asset Control Announces Stef Nielen As Director

Data management and analytics provider Asset Control has hired Stef Nielen as director, strategic business development for the buy side.

The appointment of Nielen will help the firm focus on the requirements of its buy-side customers around self-controlled data sourcing, mastering, derivation and integration across the investment decision processes.

Nielen has previously worked at MSCI, RiskMetrics, and Axioma.

Appital Hires New Head of Strategy And Chief Business Development Officer  

Appital has announced the appointment of Philipp Eberle as head of strategy and Brian Guckian as chief business development officer.

As head of strategy, Eberle will be working alongside Appital’s CEO and CTO to deliver on the firm’s growth and platform development plans as well as to drive product development and its “route to market” strategy for future platform functionality.

In his roles as chief business development officer, Guckian will be responsible for introducing Appital’s capabilities to buy-side clients, advisory firms, and eventually corporate entities.