Exclusive: United Fintech hires Barclays exec Cameron Booth as Head of APAC
FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that fintech-solutions-for-banks-and-brokers umbrella group United Fintech has hired longtime Barclays executive Cameron Booth as its new Head of APAC.
Cameron Booth will be based out of Singapore for his new position. He joins United Fintech after working for 16 years at banking giant Barclays in Australia and Singapore, spending the last eight years as Director, Head of E-FICC Sales Non Japan Asia at Barclays.
After starting out focusing on Europe out of London and Denmark, United Fintech has been adding international expansion to its priorities of late, building a US team and now starting to expand its distribution capabilities in the APAC region.
United Fintech CEO Christian Frahm noted on social media:
I’m thrilled to welcome Cameron Booth as Head of Asia Pacific, based out of Singapore.
Cameron joins us after 16 years at Barclays and brings vast experience and a deep understanding of the Singapore market and the global financial services space. From day one, we promised both our fintech founders and their customers that part of the United Fintech vision is to provide global distribution and increasingly local proximity to our customers.
Today we are one major step closer to this promise.
Cameron, can’t wait to build Asia together.
About United Fintech
United Fintech, founded and run by former CFH Group CEO Christian Frahm, acquires and scales innovative fintech companies in the capital markets space, providing banks, hedge funds, asset managers, and brokers with a single point of access to solutions that accelerate their transition to the digital world. United Fintech’s platform includes NetDania, TTMzero, FairXchange and Athena Systems, all with solutions designed to drive automation, save money, and deliver efficiency within capital markets.