Handelsbanken gets new compliance head; Funding Options appoints new tech boss

S&P Global Market Intelligence presents a daily roundup of senior management and board changes at financial institutions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Svenska Handelsbanken

Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) appointed Monika Bergström chief compliance officer, effective immediately.

Bergström, the Swedish bank's head of group compliance, will be co-opted into the group's executive management.

Funding Options

U.K-based digital finance platform Funding Options Ltd. named Malcolm Leach chief technology officer.

Leach was chief technology officer at deposit management company Flagstone Investment Management Ltd., according to AltFi.

CMC Markets

Clare Salmon will retire as a nonexecutive director of U.K.-based CMC Markets PLC at the end company's July 28 annual general meeting.

Salmon is chair of the company's risk committee.

Otkritie Financial

Russia's central bank, the sole shareholder of PJSC Bank Otkritie Financial Corp., terminated the powers of the lender's supervisory board ahead of schedule, news agency TASS reported, citing the bank.

The move came after board members Philip Gudgeon, Paul Goldfinch, Andrey Golikov, Anatoly Karachinsky and Elena Titova resigned. The new composition of the supervisory board was not disclosed.

Otkritie Bank and executives linked to the lender were recently hit by sanctions imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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