Kevin Kessinger, president of Consumer Finance North America at Citigroup, will assume responsibility for operations and technology as part of a senior management realignment.
* Tom Sanzone, former CIO and head of operations for the global corporate investment bank at Citigroup, has joined Credit Suisse as its CIO.
* Kurt Van Looveren was named vp of products and technology of FRS, a unit of S1.
* Thomas Swidarski was named svp of the newly created financial self-services group at Diebold.
* Payment processor Global Payments appointed Tony Abruzzio as vp of U.S.Merchant Product Solutions.
* Equifax named Richard Smith as CEO and chairman-elect.
* CIT Group appointed Daryl MacLellan to president, CIT Canada.
* Identrus appointed Jonathan Buckley evp of product and operations.
* Calypso Technology added Frank Franzilli, Barry Sabloff and Paul Sallaberry to the board as outside directors. CTO Hakim Erhili also joined the board.
