aixigo announces the appointment of Arnaud Picut as CEO

By Joy Dumasia

aixigo, a European provider of trusted next-generation technology to the wealth management and retail banking industries, appointed seasoned FinTech entrepreneur and executive Arnaud Picut as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Picut has over 20 years of experience in the financial technology industry. He was co-founder and managing director of Almonde, a French provider of regulatory risk management software acquired by LSE-listed Misys (today Finastra) in 2005. Since then, Picut had held long-time senior leadership roles as VP International at Luxembourg banking software vendor FERNBACH in London and Hong Kong, as well as Head of APAC for Buy-Side Platform, Global Head of Risk & Analytics and, lately, as Global Head of OpenPlatform Adoption at Finastra (formerly Misys) in Hong Kong, one of the largest FinTech companies in the world.

Picut will assume the role and responsibilities of the CEO. Christian Friedrich, the co-founder and former Chief Business Officer (CBO), will take on the part of Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), where he will oversee aixigo’s solution and product strategy, joined by Tobias Haustein, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of aixigo.

Upon his appointment, Arnaud Picut, CEO of aixigo, said: “I am delighted to take up this leadership role at aixigo. With an award-winning product offering, aixigo’s innovative client-first culture and very strong R&D, sales, and delivery teams, we are well-positioned to capitalise on the investments made since fronttrail acquired an interest in the company. My new role as CEO will see me work with aixigo’s talented team to drive the next phase of growth in Europe, Asia and beyond, and to ensure that both our high-performance aixigo:BLOXX Wealth Management Platform and Solution Kits for investment advisory, portfolio monitoring and analysis, portfolio management and financial planning are rapidly adopted in the market to deliver the data-enabled, digitally-connected, and content-rich services for new wealth experiences today’s customers demand.”