Nuvei changes three C-suite roles at once, as ThetaRay, the Payments Association, Premialab and Cerity Partners all add senior leaders.

Five fintech and payments firms named senior leaders this week. Nuvei changed three of its top jobs at once. The rest span financial-crime compliance, UK payments policy, quant analytics and wealth management.

Nuvei: new COO, CFO and CPTO

Nuvei named three C-suite executives, effective 1 July 2026, as the payments company sets out its next phase of growth.

Samir Zabaneh joins as chief operating officer from TouchBistro, where he was chairman and chief executive. David McLaughlin arrives as chief financial officer from Blackhawk Network, where he held the same title. Eli Rosner becomes chief product and technology officer, most recently CPTO at HealthEquity.

ThetaRay: Luis Pinedo, chief strategic customers officer

Pinedo spent 16 years at Santander, latterly as group vice-president for compliance, leading the bank’s global financial-crime-compliance work.

He moves from a tier-one bank to a regtech vendor whose monitoring covers more than $20 trillion in transactions for clients including Santander, ClearBank, Mashreq and Payoneer. It is one of several recent moves taking senior anti-money-laundering staff out of banks and into the technology firms that sell to them. 

The Payments Association: Emma Banymandhub (CEO) and Renuka Rawlins (policy director)

The UK trade body confirmed two senior hires. Emma Banymandhub has been named chief executive to lead its next growth phase.

Renuka Rawlins joins as director of policy and government affairs from Yaspa, where she was head of policy and public affairs, after earlier roles at Revolut and Barclays. Both hires land during a heavy period for UK payments regulation.

 Premialab: Stephane Degroote, chief revenue officer 

The London-based quant-investment data and analytics firm appointed Degroote as chief revenue officer.

He has more than 20 years in index and derivatives, most recently as global head of investable products sales at Qontigo, and before that at FTSE Russell and Markit. 

Cerity Partners: Will Peng, chief innovation officer

The independent wealth manager created the role and gave it to Peng, the first person to hold it. 

He founded the employer financial-wellness firm Northstar, backed by Workday, Airbnb and Affirm, and was previously a partner at venture firm Red Swan. His hire is another instance of a fintech operator moving into traditional wealth management.