MarketAxess Nabs Bloomberg’s Tatochenko to Head Data Biz
MarketAxess has hired Kat Tatochenko to fill the newly created position of global head of data, with responsibility for product strategy, product design, and business development to identify and exploit new business opportunities for the trading platform’s global data services.
Tatochenko was previously global enterprise relationship manager at Bloomberg, where she spent almost seven years in enterprise products sales roles. Before joining Bloomberg, she served a short stint at broker ITG in its Analytical Products and Research sales team, and spent just over 10 years at Thomson Reuters in various sales and project management roles, after starting her career as a financial analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Based in New York, she reports to MarketAxess chief information officer Nick Themelis, and manages the firm’s data sales and relationship management team.
FSB Appoints New Chair Of Standing Regulatory Committee
The Financial Stability Board has appointed Ryozo Himino to chair its Standing Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory Cooperation (SRC). Alongside his current role as vice minister for international affairs at the Japanese Financial Services Agency, he’ll serve a two-year term on the SRC, beginning Sept. 1, 2019. He succeeds Norman Chan, CEO of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, who has served in the role since April 2017.
Himino’s duties as SRC chair include leading the committee’s efforts to address financial stability issues in developing supervisory and regulatory policy, helping coordinate on cross-sector issues with governing bodies, and advising on and monitoring best practices to meet regulatory standards. He’s been working in his role at the Japanese Financial Services Agency since 2016. Himino also served as secretary general of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision from 2003 to 2006.
Capitolis Poaches Investment Banking Vet for CFO
Capitolis has hired Joseph Molluso to be the technology firm’s new chief financial officer (CFO). He’ll use his background in corporate financial planning and analysis, investor relations, and strategic planning to help the firm along in its growth and scaling plans.
Molluso joins from electronic trading firm Virtu Financial, where he was also CFO, overseeing the Virtu IPO in 2015 and providing daily leadership as a key member of the firm’s management team. Prior to that, he was a managing director in the investment banking department at JP Morgan from 2006 to 2013. Molluso also worked at Credit Suisse, where he helped establish the bank’s financial technology investment banking unit.
He’ll start at Capitolis in October and report to CEO and founder, Gil Mandelzis.
OpenDoor Mints New COO
OpenDoor Securities, which provides execution tools for illiquid segments of the US Treasury market, announced that Michael Cashel will join the firm as chief operating officer (COO). He will lead efforts to scale the company’s platform across the $16.2 trillion market and grow its client base globally.
Most recently, Cashel has been a senior consultant at State Street Global Markets, advising the firm on strategic partnerships. Prior to that, he spent nine years at Fidelity Investments, initially running the equity division of the broker-dealer, and later started an innovation team called Fidelity Trading Ventures that was responsible for establishing Luminex Trading & Analytics. Cashel was the first CEO of Luminex, ultimately spinning it off as an independent entity. Other roles he’s worked in include senior managing director of electronic trading at Bear Stearns and a principal at Morgan Stanley in the US and UK.
In his new role, Cashel will report to OpenDoor’s CEO and president, Susan Estes.
CloudMargin’s Head of Sales Adds Another Title
Karl Wyborn, CloudMargin’s global head of sales, will also assume the newly created role of global head of business development at the cloud-based software company alongside his other position. He’ll be responsible for driving the firm’s new business development strategies to grow revenues, engaging with partners, regulators, industry participants and other technology vendors, and working closely on a cross-functional basis with the firm’s sales, product, and technology teams.
Wyborn has headed CloudMargin’s sales team for the last four years. Prior to joining the firm, he had spent 18 years at JP Morgan Chase in a variety of collateral management roles, becoming a managing director in 2012. In the few years between his departure from JP Morgan in 2014, Wyborn was the EMEA head of new business development and relationship management for NetOTC, a market utility for the non-cleared OTC derivatives space.
CLS Picks Johnstone To Lead Info Services
CLS has appointed Masami Johnstone as head of information services. In her new role, she will work to expand the data business through developing and offering clients new insights for trading strategies and business decisions, and better FX risk management.
The market infrastructure group, which delivers settlement, processing, and data solutions, hired Johnstone from Euronext, where she was most recently head of buy-side sales, and earlier, head of institutional quant research. Before joining Euronext, Johnstone spent a decade at ITG Europe, working in its EMEA Analytics Product and Research team, before being appointed head of consulting EMEA analytics. She began her career at Baring Asset Management, working in several analytics roles.
Fenergo Names O’Connell Chief Customer Officer
In a newly created role, Louise O’Connell will join Fenergo as chief customer officer, responsible for enhancing customer experience for the firm by improving client-facing functions of professional services, product management, customer support, and compliance.
She joins the vendor, which provides software solutions for client lifecycle management, from the Pan-European Asset Company (PEAC), where she was chief operating officer and a non-executive director. Prior to that, she spent more than 13 years at CIT Bank, holding several positions, her final being European director of operations.
Based in Dublin, she will report to Fenergo CEO, Marc Murphy.
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