Johan Wiese Joins IG Markets South Africa as Director

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Johan Wiese Joins IG Markets South Africa as Director

<p class="MsoNormal">Johan Wiese, the IG
Group's Finance Chief Operating Officer (COO), has joined the online trading
provider's subsidiary, IG Markets South Africa (IGMSA), as a Director. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Wiese, who boasts of
close to two decades of financial industry experience, was appointed Director
on the 30th of last month, the firm's latest Companies House filing shows. A
separate filing also discloses that IGMSA has terminated the appointment of Richard
Heading as a Director at the firm.</p><p class="MsoNormal">According to Heading's LinkedIn profile, he became the company's Group Finance Director in March of last year and has
spent over four years at the London-headquartered brokerage. The executive previously
spent over 15 years at the global professional services firm, Willis Towers Watson.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile, Wiese's directorial appointment comes over four months after IGMSA <a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/executives/moves/robert-van-eyden-joins-ig-markets-south-africa-as-ceo/">selected
Robert van Eyden</a>, a veteran with almost
three decades of financial industry experience, as its CEO. van Eyden joined
the subsidiary from First National Bank South Africa where he was both the CEO and
Chairperson.</p><p>Check out the Finance Magnates London Summit 2022 session about talent acquisition in the finance industry.</p><p class="MsoNormal">A Long-Time IG Exec</p><p class="MsoNormal">In a career spanning
about 17 years so far, Wiese has spent over 13 years at IG Group, having joined the brokerage in February 2009 as a Group Financial Account. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Over the years, Wiese has held several positions at IG Markets including Financial Controller for the UK and
Europe and then later Financial Controller for the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa. In June 2015, he
was appointed as the Head of Finance Projects and would later take on the role of Head of Finance
Change. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Furthermore, Wiese
served as IG Group's Business Finance Controller for over a year between
January 2020 and March 2021. Before joining IG Group, he spent a nine-month
stint as an Accountant, Equity Research, at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW),
the investment banking arm of Germany's Dresdner Bank AG.</p><p class="MsoNormal">On top of that, he was an Auditor
for almost two years between March 2005 and December 2007 at Tenk Loubser and
Associates Chartered Accountants, conducting extensive auditing and accounting
for the South African firm.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile, IG Group
recently <a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/executives/moves/ig-group-hires-tobias-sthr-as-the-head-of-sales-in-germany/">appointed
Tobias Stöhr</a> as its Head of Sales in
Germany. Stöhr joined the broker from Spectrum Markets, an independent unit of
the IG Group. Furthermore, the Group recently <a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/executives/moves/glen-hastings-joins-ig-group-as-institutional-sales-manager/">tapped
Glen Hastings</a>, the former FX
Institutional Liquidity Manager at Price Markets UK, to lead its institutional
sales efforts.</p>

This article was written by Solomon Oladipupo at www.financemagnates.com.

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