Margaret Harwood-Jones is leaving her role as head of Client Segments Asset managers & Alternative Investments, BNP Paribas Securities Services after 10 years with the company. She will be departing at the end of October to head up the Investors and Intermediaries business, specifically securities services, at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore.
With a year in securities services spanning 30 years, Harwood-Jones has held almost a dozen different roles spanning relationship management, trust services, fund administration and global custody at a handful of service providers. Her first role was as a manager for Midland Bank Trust Corporation (Jersey), owned by HSBC, in 1983. She then relocated to the firms offices in Cambridge and London before becoming head of corporate trust and relationship management group at Midland Securities Services. When Midland was rebranded as HSBC Bank plc in the late-1990s, she attained the role of deputy head of its Global Investor Services group, overseeing the global custody and corporate trusts of the bank.
Harwood-Jones joined Cogent Investment Operations from HSBC in 2001. She joined as European director of relationship management and marketing, and was instrumental in the sale of business to BNP Paribas Securities Services in 2002 and accepted her present position in the institutional investor segment a year later.
(JDC)