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Where are they now?

Tracking familiar names and faces from fintec, who may have either moved onto new arenas, or simply come back into the fold with a new logo on their business card.

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I've been on a sabbatical

Some time ago I realised the banking industry was in for a regulatory shakeup along with perhaps some revelations in the areas of privacy and security. I chose to have a break, putting a few things on the shelf for a while. A friend of mine, a nuclear physicist, who was also in the financial industry and had moved into electronics, suggested I tur...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Gardner joins banking sector brain drain

James Gardner, head of innovation and research at Lloyds Banking Group, is quiting his position to join the UK Government's Department for Work and Pensions. What does this say about the role of innovation in the stricken commercial banking sector? In his BankerVision blog, James plays a straight bat to the obvious question: "Whilst most thin...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Gordon Gekko RIP?

With what appears to be impeccable timing, Hollywood is awash with reports of the imminent return of Gordon Gekko, the ultimate master of the universe, in a reprise of the 1987 blockbuster Wall Street. With a working title Money Never Sleeps, the new movie will see Gekko released from jail to confront the financial market meltdown afflicting moder...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Life after Swift

Belatedly proving that there is life after Swift, the banking co-operative's former head of securities James Donovan has landed a new role at US self-regulatory authority Finra. In his new job, Donovan will take charge of Finra's corporate technology and strategy, and will also be responsible for registration and disclosure, market transparency fa...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

The Americanisation of Reuters

Nice to see that plain old Tom Glocer has been upgraded to the more commanding Thomas H Glocer in his new role as chief of Thomson Reuters.

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

SocGen rogue trader lands new job

Who says crime doesn't pay? Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader allegedly responsible for $7.3 billion losses at SocGen, has got a new job - as a computer consultant. Kerviel is working for LCA computer consultancy in the Paris suburb of Levallois, hired by the same man who hid him from journalists after the SocGen scandal broke. He was offered the j...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Tony Kirby dusts off his gardening tools

My moles tell me that STP stalwart Tony Kirby is getting his fingers green courtesy of a stint of gardening leave from Accenture. Tony's been around the block a few times, taking on roles at Swift, GSTPA, Bolero, Reuters, Deutsche Bourse, and SmartStream, before pitching up at Accenture as UK regional sales director and associate partner of data m...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Idiot guy at Alphaville

Fame at last for one-time fintech journo Paul Murphy, following a brief cameo appearance as 'idiot guy at Alphaville' in the Martin Luke’s column in today’s FT. Old lags will remember Paul as the dishevelled Columbo-styled investigative reporter who covered the fintech beat for the Banker back in the late 1980s. He was also the man behind the scu...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Tim Jones' pension plan

The UK Government has announced the appointment of Tim Jones as chief executive of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority Jones, a former chief executive of retail banking at NatWest and the man behind the Mondex e-cash scheme, will be charged with setting up a trust-based occupational scheme by 2012. The last we heard, Jones had just taken up t...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

RIP STP, long live ICMA

STP (the industry trade mag) may be dead, but co-founder and MD Graeme Austin has conjured an unlikely resurrection as director of product management for the market services business of the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA). Officially, STP Information Services went into voluntary liquidation a few months back after HM Revenue &...

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