BNY Mellon Appoints New Operations Head

BNY Mellon has appointed its new head of operations. Lester Owens will take up the role as of February next year reporting to chief executive Charles Scharf. He has more than 20 years experience in leading operations at various financial institutions. Most recently, Owens was responsible for global wholesale banking operations and corporate and investment banking client onboarding at JP Morgan. Prior to that, he led transaction banking operations at Deutsche Bank and was a site director at Citibank.