CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
Marsh
The insurance broker and risk adviser has hired Simon Curtis as chief operating officer of its UK operations, based in London.
He succeeds Ian Clarke, who continues as a board member and a member of the firm’s international executive group.
Curtis joins from Jardine Lloyd Thompson, which he joined in 2000 after its acquisition of the Burke Ford Group, where he was managing director of the general insurance business.
Barclays
Simon Hunt has been appointed as director of securitisation and capital issuance at the banking group.
Prior to joining Barclays Capital in 2006, Hunt worked as a structured finance lawyer for Sidley Austin Brown & Wood.
He was also previously a structuring banker for emerging markets securitisations at Standard Bank.
Santander
The bank has appointed Jon Pike as a relationship director for education, health and communities in the South West and Wales, based at the bank’s regional corporate banking centre in Bristol.
Pike has over 26 years of experience in the sector and joins from the Bank of Ireland, where he was head of healthcare for the South West.
BNY Mellon
The financial services group has appointed Joe Duffy as chief executive of The Bank of New York Mellon Ireland, after receiving approval from the Irish Financial Regulator to establish a new bank licensed entity in the country.
Duffy is currently based in Dublin as the group’s country executive for Ireland, a role he will continue to hold.
SIFMA
The Royal Bank of Canada’s John Taft has been named chair-elect of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) for 2010.
Taft, who will continue in his role as head of the US division of RBC Wealth Management, has for the past year been chair of the organisation’s private client group steering committee, playing a lead role in advocating reform of the US financial regulatory system.
He recently testified before the House of Representatives committee on financial services on behalf of SIFMA about the need for a new federal fiduciary standard for broker-dealers and investment advisers providing personalised investment advice to individual investors.
Qinetiq
The defence technology group has appointed Leo Quinn as its new chief executive officer.
Quinn joins from printing group De La Rue, where he was also chief executive. He has also worked on a number of business turnarounds in Europe in the US for companies such as civil and military avionics provider Honeywell International and software group Invensys.