Radial has appointed its chief operating officer (COO) Laura Ritchey as the CEO of Radial North America. Ritchey, who has been with the eCommerce logistics solutions provider since 2021 as COO, will assume her new role on Sept. 15, Radial said in a Tuesday (Sept. 5) press release. With...
Another executive has resigned from cryptocurrency giant Binance amid ongoing regulatory pressure. Mayur Kamat, the company’s head of product, has stepped down, a spokesperson for Binance told PYMNTS Monday (Sept. 24). “We are grateful to him for helping guide Binance through some of our most explosive growth,...
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has announced a transition in its CEO role. The healthcare, pharmacy and retail firm said in a Friday (Sept. 1) press release that its board of directors and Rosalind Brewer mutually agreed that Brewer would step down as CEO and as a member of the...
Visa Canada announced in an email Thursday (Aug. 31) to PYMNTS that Dan Iwachiw is now the vice president and head of Canada Products. An industry veteran with 20+ years in the financial services sector, Iwachiw will oversee the growth, adoption and evolution of Visa Canada products and...
Globalstar, an international telecom infrastructure provider, has named Paul Jacobs as its new CEO. Jacobs, the founder and CEO of XCOM Labs and former CEO and executive chairman of Qualcomm, brings a wealth of wireless industry experience and a proven track record of fostering innovation-led growth to his new role...
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s executive vice president of the supervision and credit group, Azher Abbasi, will reportedly retire on Oct. 31. Abbasi will be succeeded by Niel Willardson, who will become interim executive vice president on Oct. 1, Bloomberg reported Monday (Aug. 28), citing an email from...
Plaid has appointed payments and financial services executive Cecilia Frew as head of open finance. “In this role, Cecilia is responsible for overseeing Plaid’s evolving and dynamic relationships with financial institutions as we move into a new era of digital finance,” Plaid said in an announcement emailed to...
U.S. Bank has set the effective date of two previously announced promotions. Effective Sept. 1, the bank’s current vice chair and CFO, Terrance Robert Dolan, will become vice chair and chief administration officer overseeing the company’s combined Chief Administration Office, U.S. Bank said in a...
Basware has appointed Jason Kurtz, who has served as interim CEO since the start of 2023, as its permanent CEO. Kurtz has over two decades of experience in B2B enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and a successful track record in managing global organizations that will be applied...