Malcolm McComas is the new President of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia), taking over from Chris van Aanholt who has concluded his two-year term.

Mr McComas has served as Vice President of Finsia since 2008, and has been a director since 2005. He is also the principal of McComas Capital, having previously served corporate advisory group Grant Samuel and Country NatWest, now Citigroup.

Finsia CEO Martin Fahy says Mr McComas “has been highly influential in the repositioning of Finsia over the past couple of years, as well as in the development of our renewed strategic vision for 2010–2014”.

Finsia represents all financial services industries across Australasia and has more than 16,500 members.