Global Custodian Inducts Four to 2026 GC Hall of Fame

Global Custodian has inducted Fiona Horsewill of HSBC, Ben Challice of Pirum, Vicky Kyproglou of UBS and Bohdana Yefremova of Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine into its 2026 GC Hall of Fame. The recognition covers leaders in global custody, post-trade infrastructure and securities services.

The GC Hall of Fame honors industry professionals with long careers who have led large programs and influenced market practice across operations, product and technology.

Fiona Horsewill joined HSBC in 2023 as global head of securities services. She is responsible for HSBC’s global securities services strategy, with priorities that include modernizing core infrastructure, advancing digital capabilities and expanding activity in digital assets, private markets and emerging markets. Horsewill previously served as managing director and global head of data and digital for securities services at Citi and spent seven years at Northern Trust as global head of product for asset servicing. Earlier roles at Lehman Brothers Asset Management and Insight Investment covered investment operations and post-trade transformation.

Ben Challice is chief executive of Pirum. He leads the firm’s strategy on end-to-end automation, support for T+1 settlement readiness and exploration of AI applications in post-trade processing. Challice has more than 25 years in capital markets, starting in securities lending and equity finance at Goldman Sachs and participating in the EquiLend design partner group. He held senior trading and prime services roles at Lehman Brothers and Nomura and was global head of trading services at J.P. Morgan, overseeing securities finance, collateral management and tri-party businesses. He has served on the Bank of England’s Money Markets Committee on issues including liquidity and settlement-cycle reform.

Vicky Kyproglou is a managing director at UBS and global head of network and market infrastructure. She manages the bank’s post-trade network relationships with financial market utilities, central counterparties and other market infrastructure providers. Kyproglou has spent more than 30 years at UBS and predecessor firms, including leadership of US funding and treasury operations for Wealth Management Americas. She is vice chair of the International Securities Services Association and served on the Association for Financial Markets in Europe’s post-trade board from 2015 to 2019. At UBS she has also participated in internal programs to support mid-career women.

Bohdana Yefremova leads global payments and securities services at Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine, covering custody, clearing and post-trade operations in the Ukrainian market. She has more than two decades of experience in custody and securities services. Yefremova joined Raiffeisen in 2014 as head of global securities services for Ukraine, became head of GIS in 2021 and later took her current role. Her earlier positions included head of custody roles at Ukrsotsbank and other UniCredit Group banks, and she began her career at Creditanstalt and Bank Austria Creditanstalt in Ukraine. Her work has included efforts to sustain custody services and market continuity during periods of disruption.

Global Custodian said the Hall of Fame entries reflect long-term leadership across product, operations, technology and market infrastructure. The recent work of the inductees ranges from infrastructure build-out and digitalization at large custodians, to automation and settlement-cycle preparations at a post-trade technology firm, to maintaining post-trade continuity in a challenging local market.

Global Custodian extended congratulations to the four inductees.