Briefs: Westpac director steps down, new CEO for BSP, YBR invests in data analytics
Westpac has announced that director Peter Marriott will retire after the bank’s annual general meeting next month. Marriott, who joined the board in 2013, was ANZ chief financial officer from 19997 to 2012. He is currently a director of ASX Ltd. Audette Exel, who joined the board last year, will take over from Marriott as chair of the board risk committee.
Papua New Guinea’s biggest bank, BSP Financial Group, has appointed Mark Robinson as its new group chief executive. Robinson’s previous roles include CEO of Commercial Bank International, which is based in the United Arab Emirates, and CEO of ANZ’s operations in South East Asia. He has also had extensive experience at Citibank, including roles in India, Russia, Turkey and Hungary. He replaces Robin Fleming, who has worked at BSP for 42 years. BSP, formerly Bank of South Pacific, operations in seven Pacific nations.
Mortgage broker Yellow Brick Road has signed a contract with Servian, a data analytics company, to develop YBR’s data analytics, business decisioning and customer insight capabilities. YBR executive chair Mark Bouris said the aim was to use data to “shape the future of products and services, creating new offerings to meet the needs of borrowers.”