Temenos announced the appointment of Phillip Finnegan as Managing Director for the Pacific region. Finnegan will be responsible for customer engagement and regional strategy in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. He brings 20 years' experience in financial services technology to spearhead Temenos' continued business growth and support the rapid pace of banking innovation in the region. Temenos' cloud-native and SaaS technology is used by more banks, including more challenger banks, than any other core banking provider. Temenos' modern technology platform enables banks to create hyper-efficient business models and accelerate innovation to differentiate their service and deliver more value to their customers. Prior to Temenos, Finnegan spent three years as Managing Director, Pacific, at payment systems company ACI Worldwide. He has also held senior management roles at FIS, Clear2Pay and First Data Corporation as well as board member and advisory roles on a number of fintech startups. Finnegan is an industry expert on financial services technology and a regular speaker and commentator on topics including open banking, payments and banking platform modernization.