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UK Finance, the 2017-formed trade association for UK banking and financial services, has appointed two new managing directors.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\nBoth new appointees will join the trade body in the autumn<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Karen Baxter, a UK police veteran, will head up UK Finance’s economic crime intelligence strategy.<\/p>\n
Baxter was head of terrorism investigations in Northern Ireland for two years. She then moved to City of London Police where she still commands its economic crime unit.<\/p>\n
Jana Mackintosh, a FIS executive, will head up UK Finance’s payments and innovation operations.<\/p>\n
Mackintosh currently directs UK, Europe and Asia government relations for FIS, the major US financial software provider which owns WorldPay.<\/p>\n
Both new appointees will join the trade body in the autumn.<\/p>\n
Economic crime intelligence strategy<\/p>\n
Joining in October, Baxter will lead the development and implementation of “a coherent and comprehensive strategy for intelligence sharing across economic and cyber enabled crime”.<\/p>\n
She will work alongside Katy Worobec, UK Finance’s managing director for economic crime.<\/p>\n
As well as heading up London’s economic crime unit, Baxter is also the national coordinator for fraud investigations in the region.<\/p>\n
Specifically, in South East London, she is a national lead for Cyber Protect – a regional organised crime unit.<\/p>\n
UK Finance says it chose Baxter for her experience “working in partnership across the public and private sectors”.<\/p>\n
Payments and innovation<\/p>\n
Starting in September, Mackintosh will lead the trade body’s “payments and innovation policy and programme development”.<\/p>\n
The role, newly created, sees Mackintosh deepen her relationship with the trade body. She said in a statement that she’s worked “closely with UK Finance since its formation” in 2017.<\/p>\n
Mackintosh previously worked on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) competition mandate after she joined the regulator in 2014.<\/p>\n
Her work led to the creation of the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR). This is now the economic regulator for the UK’s £75 trillion payment systems industry.<\/p>\n
This saw Mackintosh play a key role in the development of major fintech regulation such as the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2).<\/p>\n
The new UK Finance managing director has also sat on a number of boards at the Bank of England, the European Payment Council, and Pay.UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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UK Finance, the 2017-formed trade association for UK banking and financial services, has appointed two new managing directors. Both new appointees will join the trade body in the autumn Karen Baxter, a UK police veteran, will head up UK Finance’s economic crime intelligence strategy. Baxter was head of terrorism investigations in Northern Ireland for two … Continue reading UK Finance lands two new managing directors<\/span><\/a> Continue Reading