The CISI has awarded Honorary Fellowships to five highly-regarded members of the financial community, all of whom have held senior positions in the organisation.

The new Honorary Fellows are Fionnuala Carvill, Nick Swales, David Kane, Dr Robert Barnes and Vivienne Artz.

Honorary Fellowship carries the designatory letters FCSI (Hon) and is awarded annually by the CISI’s Board of Trustees to those who have made an "outstanding positive contribution", both to the financial services profession and to the CISI.

CISI chairman Michael Cole-Fontayn said: “The CISI board and I are delighted this year to award our highest accolade, Honorary Fellowship, to these five accomplished financial community professionals.

“They are exemplary role models for the next generation of professionals, having shown dedication to both our profession and commitment to life-long learning.

"It is a pleasure to recognise their outstanding contribution to both the CISI and to the financial services professional globally. We look forward to their continued guidance and inspiration over the coming years.” 

The five new Honorary Fellows are:

Fionnuala Carvill, Chartered FCSI (Hon), FCIB FCIS

Fionnuala was a director of the CISI from 2010-2022 and is a Founding Trustee of the Future Foundation. She is also a Past President, and committee member, of the Institute’s Guernsey Branch. She is a NED of Investec Bank (Channel Islands) Limited and Princess Private Equity Holding, an investment company listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. She has previously been head of private wealth management at Kleinwort Benson Guernsey, commission secretary and head of innovation at the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and director of Rothschild Bank (CI). She is a Past President of Women in Professions; a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers and was granted Freedom of the City of London in 2007. In 2009 she spent five months in China as a volunteer with VSO.

Nick Swales, DL, Chartered FCSI (Hon)

Nick was a director of the CISI from 2009-2021 and is the Founding Chair of the Future Foundation. Nick is regional director north east at Rathbone Investment Management. He started his career at Wise Speke and spent four years at Merrill Lynch before opening the Laing & Cruikshank office in Newcastle, which was acquired by UBS in 2004. At UBS, Nick became an executive director and head of the Newcastle office. He is immediate past chair of the Percy Hedley Foundation, a large charity in the North East of England providing educational, vocational and residential care opportunities for disabled people; a trustee of both the Newcastle University Retirement Benefit Fund and the University’s Development Trust; and was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Tyne & Wear in 2020. He is also Chair of Newcastle Theatre Royal.

David Kane, FCSI (Hon)

David was a director of the CISI from 2009-2018. He had more than 28 years’ experience at JP Morgan, where his roles included chief operating officer of global custody securities servicing for investor services. Additionally, from 2012 to 2015, he was the chief executive of JP Morgan's global trust & fiduciary business, providing trustee services to large scale global asset managers, specialist investment trusts, alternative fund managers and their boards generating very substantial annual fee income. During his career he has been chair and active participant in many strategic oversight and corporate governance forums.



Dr Robert Barnes, Chartered FCSI (Hon)

Robert was a director of the CISI from 2010-2016. He became chief executive of Turquoise Global Holdings, LSEG’s pan-European MTF in 2013, a role he now combines with that of global head of securities trading at the group. He was formerly chief executive of UBS MTF and a managing director, equities, at UBS. He has participated in a wide range of key advisory and policy groups across the financial services sector and has been a wholehearted and enthusiastic supporter of the CISI and its work across these many fora, across many geographies, for many years. Robert has a BA in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard, and a PhD in Biotechnology from Cambridge.




Vivienne Artz OBE, FCSI (Hon)

Vivienne is on the Advisory Board of Women in Banking and Finance, having been its president and chief executive from 2017-2020. She is on the boards of a wide range of organisations in finance and academia, notably for the CISI as chair of the data committee at the International Regulatory Strategy Group, a joint venture between TheCityUK and City of London Corporation. Previously, she was a managing director and chief privacy officer at the London Stock Exchange Group, Refinitiv and Thomson Reuters. She was also a managing director and global head of privacy legal and head of international for the intellectual property and technology law group at Citi.