The latest wealth management moves and appointments in the UK, rest of Europe, Middle East and select international locations.

Financial Conduct Authority
The Financial Conduct Authority, the UK regulator, has appointed two new directors of authorisations as it fills 95 new authorisation roles. A new finance director will also join the regulator this spring, it said in a statement yesterday. 

Laura Dawes will take up one of two new DoA roles. Dawes is interim director of strategy, policy, international and intelligence in the FCA’s Enforcement and Market Oversight Division.

Working alongside Dawes as a fellow DoA will be Dominic Cashman. He joins the regulator from TP ICAP, an interdealer broker, where he was most recently head of integration and transformation and, previously, interim group head of operations. 

Craig Chapman will join the FCA as finance director in May. Chapman is chief financial officer at RTX RouteTrader, a fintech operating in the telecoms sector. Before that, he served in senior finance roles at ED&F Man, a commodities trader, and Barclays Capital.  

Chapman’s appointment follows the retirement of David Godfrey as the FCA’s finance director. 

“Tackling the risk of consumer harm starts when firms apply to us for authorisation. Dominic and Laura will lead this vital part of the regulatory system," Emily Shepperd, chief operating officer and executive director of authorisations at the FCA, said.

Saxo Bank
Shareholders of Denmark-based Saxo Bank have elected Henrik Andersen as a new member of the board of directors. The vote was held earlier this week at the firm’s extraordinary general meeting.

Andersen is president and chief executive of Vestas Wind Systems, a sustainable energy business. He previously served as group president and CEO of Hempel A/S and held executive leadership positions in ISS A/S. Earlier in his career, Andersen worked for more than a decade in the financial industry.