Movers and Shakers: NatWest Group names chief payments officer

NatWest Group named Mark Brant as its chief payments officer effective Jan. 16. [caption id="attachment_57365427" align="alignright" width="125"] Mark Brant, chief payments officer, NatWest Group [/caption] Brant will report to Chief Executive for Commercial & Institutional and Group Executive for Payments Paul Thwaite. He succeeds Rupert Keeley, who led the $944 billion, Edinburgh, Scotland-based bank’s payments center of expertise on an interim basis, according to a release. Brant, who has more than 25 years of experience in payments, previously held roles at American Express and PayPal . “With one in four payments touching NatWest platforms and the diverse scale of the bank’s customer base, we have an exciting opportunity ahead of us,” Brant said. Ex-TD Bank exec joins iCapital board Fintech iCapital appointed Agnes Bundy Scanlan to its Board of Directors effective Jan. 1. [caption id="attachment_57365428" align="alignright" width="144"] Agnes Bundy Scanlan, Board of Directors, iCapital [/caption] Scanlan, president of regulatory risk management firm The Cambridge Group , formerly served as the chief regulatory and compliance officer and global chief privacy officer at TD Bank , according to an iCapital release. “Having an active and engaged board of directors with a variety of backgrounds and experiences is vital to the success of iCapital,” iCapital Chief Executive Lawrence Calcano said in the release. Scanlan also serves on the board of property management platform AppFolio, revenue cycle management company R1 RCM and Truist Financial , according to the release. In 2022, iCapital extended its multiyear partnership with $3 trillion Bank of America . The Clearing House appoints David Watson CEO [caption id="attachment_57365429" align="alignright" width="179"] David Watson, CEO, The Clearing House [/caption] The Clearing House (TCH) has named David Watson, former chief product officer at messaging system Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift), as its chief executive effective Feb. 1. Watson will succeed President and Chief Executive Jim Aramanda, who will retire in early 2023, according to a TCH release. As chief executive, Watson will guide THC’s innovation efforts, including the adoption of real-time payments, Moynihan added. Prior to joining TCH, Watson spent 17 years at Deutsche Bank , where he served on the bank’s commercial and product leadership teams, according to the release. ConnexPay names Blair Jeffery COO [caption id="attachment_57365430" align="alignright" width="174"] Blair Jeffery, COO, ConnexPay [/caption] Payments fintech ConnexPay named Blair Jeffery as its chief operating officer in December. Jeffery is responsible for the fintech’s core strategic and operational teams with a focus on innovation, according to a ConnexPay release. “I’m committed to getting in front of growth challenges before they become impediments to revenue and retention,” Jeffery said. “As a team we have set our sights on building an industry-leading, world-class operational function, and my job is to execute on that strategic journey.” Jeffery previously served as chief operating officer of electronics payments network Noventis , which was acquired by WEX in 2019, as well as chief executive of software-as-a-service fintech Vertical . 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