Personnel/page/4 news and trends

Fiserv Appoints Mastercard Senior Strategic Advisor Raj Seshadri to Board

October 23, 2026
Fiserv
EBay Cuts 1,100 Jobs to Pivot Toward High-Growth Markets
Personnel // October 21, 2026

EBay plans to lay off 9% of its workforce, or about 1,100 people, as it sharpens its focus on faster-growing markets, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct. 21). CEO Jamie Iannone announced the move in a memo sent to staff, which was seen by Reuters, and an...

AI Agents Could Fill Treasury’s Looming Talent Gap
Artificial Intelligence // October 19, 2026

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Fifth Third Bank’s Katherine Weislogel There’s a workforce problem brewing in corporate treasury departments, and it has little to do with finding the next generation of finance executives. It’s about the people who have spent 20 or 30 years making...

OpenAI Expands Uday Ruddarraju’s Role to Head Compute and Infrastructure Units
Artificial Intelligence // October 14, 2026

OpenAI’s infrastructure and compute businesses have a new leader, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Oct. 14). The artificial intelligence company appointed its chief technology officer for compute, Uday Ruddarraju, to head both the infrastructure and compute businesses. The previous head of the infrastructure unit, Sachin Katti, will...

Cross River Picks Ex-Lazard CEO Evan Russo as President
Personnel // October 13, 2026

Cross River Bank has selected former Lazard Asset Management CEO Evan Russo as its new president. The appointment will see Russo work with Cross River CEO Gilles Gade to help establish the bank as a “trusted infrastructure layer” for payments, banking, digital assets and AI-enabled...

Interviews & Exclusives
AI Agents Could Fill Treasury’s Looming Talent Gap

October 19, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Fifth Third Bank’s Katherine Weislogel There’s a workforce problem brewing in corporate treasury departments, and it has little to do with finding the next generation of finance executives. It’s about the people who have spent 20 or 30 years making sure invoices get processed, receivables get reconciled, accounts get opened […]

Digital Assets: The Changing Talent Picture

October 13, 2026
Banks investing in digital money need more than the technology to issue, custody or move digital assets. They need people who can connect those capabilities to the systems and controls...

SoFi Tech Solutions’ New President Is Building the AWS of Finance

August 31, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation With SoFi’s Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore Former Visa executive Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore is three months into her new role as president of SoFi Technology Solutions. The premise guiding her...

Fuel Costs Push Employers to Rethink Worker Benefits

July 03, 2026
Volatile gasoline prices are doing more than squeezing household budgets. Fuel costs are beginning to reshape the labor market by changing which jobs workers can afford to take and forcing...

Quick Reads
Fiserv Appoints Mastercard Senior Strategic Advisor Raj Seshadri to Board

October 23, 2026
Fiserv has announced that Raj Seshadri, senior strategic advisor to the CEO of Mastercard, will join Fiserv’s board of directors and enhance its collective expertise around uniting commerce and finance. She will join the board Nov. 30. Seshadri has been with Mastercard for more than a decade and, before her current role, served as chief commercial payments officer, […]

EBay Cuts 1,100 Jobs to Pivot Toward High-Growth Markets

October 21, 2026
EBay plans to lay off 9% of its workforce, or about 1,100 people, as it sharpens its focus on faster-growing markets, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct. 21). CEO Jamie Iannone announced...

OpenAI Expands Uday Ruddarraju’s Role to Head Compute and Infrastructure Units

October 14, 2026
OpenAI’s infrastructure and compute businesses have a new leader, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Oct. 14). The artificial intelligence company appointed its chief technology officer for compute, Uday Ruddarraju, to head both...

Cross River Picks Ex-Lazard CEO Evan Russo as President

October 13, 2026
Cross River Bank has selected former Lazard Asset Management CEO Evan Russo as its new president. The appointment will see Russo work with Cross River CEO Gilles Gade to help...