Briefs: Appointments for ANZ, SWIFT, IpsomPrime and others 22 January 2015 4:52PM Bernard Kellerman Briefs, Sean Birchley, ANZ's general manager of corporate and commercial banking for Queensland and the Northern Territory, will add international and institutional banking to his state-based responsibilities. The expanded role follows the retirement of Russell Shields, who had been ANZ's state chairman in Queensland since 2008. The breadth of his client base and product lines will see Birchley report jointly to Aaron Ross, ANZ's head of international banking for Australia, and Mark Whelan, ANZ's managing director of global commercial banking. Former banker and investment manager, Peter Vann, has been appointed an associate professor at Macquarie University's Applied Finance Centre. He will be responsible for developing and introducing a new wealth management stream to the centre's programs. Vann is a finance industry veteran whose former positions include head of structured investments at Westpac and head of investment research at Constellation Capital Management. Electronic transfer and messaging service SWIFT has appointed Sharon Toh as its next head of ASEAN, while Zelda Anthony will become the firm's new head of compliance solutions for Asia Pacific. Both Toh and Anthony will be based in Singapore, reporting directly to SWIFT Asia Pacific managing director, Eddie Haddad. Toh joined SWIFT from Thomson Reuters where she was sales director for Indochina. Anthony's appointment is an internal one. Australian foreign exchange broker IpsomPrime has appointed Jeffrey Triganza as its new chief executive officer. The new CEO has years of experience in the foreign exchange industry, most recently as sales manager at the Sydney office of IronFX Global. The Ipsomprime website promotes leveraged exposure to currency movements of up to 500 times the initial investment, and use of Expert Advisors - more accurately described as "forex robots" - which run automated trading programs for retail customers. (NOTE: IpsomPrime is a corporate authorised representative of Avestra Capital, an ASIC-regulated financial services company, not a subsitiary of Avestra as previously reported.)