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Alex Dunn
Director - Innovation & Strategic Growth Initiatives at Visa
Alex Dunn is Director for Innovation & Strategic Growth Initiatives at Visa. He is part of the Visa Direct money movement business where he is leading global strategic growth projects to build the future of money and payments inc. several cross-industry collaboration with central banks and Visa’s clients. He previously worked in Visa's Product & Payment Services Risk team, leading strategic risk initiatives to drive growth, enhance Visa's operational resilience and protect the payments ecosystem.
Before Visa, Alex worked for 7.5 years at the Bank of England across Risk, Supervision and Parliamentary Affairs. Inc. a secondment from the Bank as Head of Risk at the UK Office for National Statistics. Alex’s research interests include the role of payments and settlement systems, emerging digital finance, and the evolution of central bank balance sheets.
Alex is a Chartered Manager and has an Executive MBA from the University of Exeter Business School, an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA from the University of Hull. Alex has Diploma and Associate qualifications in Guitar from the London College of Music.
Donatien Chedom Fotso
Director of Artificial Intelligence at EPAM Systems
Donatien Chedom Fotso is a Data Science and AI leader with over 18 years of experience spanning both academia and industry. He specialises in building and leading high-performing AI/data teams, driving the implementation and adoption of state-of-the-art AI/ML technologies to deliver impactful, end-to-end solutions across various industries.
Donatien holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and a degree in Computer Science. His academic work includes contributions at the University of Oxford, where he applied AI and machine learning techniques to cancer research, enhancing understanding of disease evolution, personalised therapies, and early diagnostics. He previously led the Applied AI team at Deutsche Bank's Data Science CoE, overseeing the development and deployment of enterprise-wide AI solutions across multiple business units.
Currently, Donatien serves as Director of Artificial Intelligence at EPAM Systems, where he leads initiatives to deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions across a broad range of industries, with particular focus on the BFSI sector within their AI consulting unit. He supports clients at various stages of their AI adoption journey, helping them leverage AI to unlock business value, enhance competitiveness, and drive sustainable growth.
Donatien is passionate about translating innovative AI research into tangible business outcomes, consistently applying cutting-edge technologies to solve complex real-world challenges.
Susana Esteban
Managing Director Blockchain & Digital Assets at FTI Consulting
Susana Esteban is a leading economist and digital assets expert advising corporates, financial institutions, and fintechs on the integration of blockchain, tokenized money, and digital financial infrastructure. She leads the Digital Assets & Blockchain practice at FTI Consulting in EMEA, where she specialises in tokenisation strategies, stablecoin adoption, and the valuation of digital assets and platforms. Susana also serves on the expert panel of the Digital Euro Association, helping shape inclusive and compliant models for the future of money and finance.
Kene Ezeji-Okoye
Chief Blockchain Officer at Ubyx
Strategist and technologist bridging traditional finance and public blockchains, leading engagements with and advising with some of the world’s largest public and private financial institutions to advance real-world adoption of high-impact digital asset innovations.
Gaurav Sharma
Head of UK Payments at PagoNxt Payments
Gaurav Sharma is a results-oriented payments leader passionate about fostering payments innovation, strategic transformation, and exceptional customer experiences.
He is committed to operational efficiency, robust risk management, and creating high-performing teams.
Gaurav has considerable experience in ISO 20022, UK Payment Schemes, SWIFT Service Bureaus, Critical National Infrastructure upgrades and Cross Border Payments.
Louise Beaumont
Independant Expert
Dr Louise Beaumont is an independent expert in open banking, finance and data and key supporting technologies such as digital identity. Over the last 15 years, she has focussed on developing the market, working with legislators; regulators; standards, scheme and industry bodies to create disruption; with corporates to cope with disruption; and with start-ups to exploit disruption – with open and accessible data as the guiding principle.
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Suresh Vaghjiani
CEO at CLOWD9
Suresh is CEO and founder of B-Corp certified CLOWD9, the world’s first cloud-native, decentralized issuer processing platform. Born in the cloud, the platform delivers uncompromising, limitless payments technology around the globe.
Suresh is a highly experienced senior executive with a proven track record of leading rapid-growth companies. He has expertise in developing products and services on behalf of both, financial technology, as well as FCA regulated companies.
Bringing a wealth of knowledge in global payments with a number of prior senior roles including CEO of Tribe Payments, President & Managing Director of Threadd, as well as listed companies such as Paysafe Group and PXP Financial, Suresh has represented the Fintech sector and the UK Government on a number of trade missions to Mexico, Australia, and China.
Nithya Sridharan
Director, Digital Assets at TPICAP
As Product Director for Digital Assets at TP ICAP, Nithya Sridharan lead strategic initiatives at the intersection of traditional finance and Digital assets, helping institutions navigate this evolving landscape. Her experience spans investment banking, strategic investments, markets, risk management, regulatory affairs, IT, and public policy research across the UK and Asia.
An alum of Credit Suisse’s Executive Board–sponsored Leadership Acceleration Program, she brings a leadership style rooted in inclusion and a passion for building scalable, responsible financial innovation.
Outside of work, she writes on the interplay between 'Culture and Capital', where she explores how culture shapes our economic thinking.
Parul Kaul-Green
CFA, Founder & CEO at Eudaimon Consulting
Parul Kaul Green is a distinguished global executive and economist, recognised among the Top
10 Powerful Women in Insurtech and Fintech in Europe.
With over two decades of financial service experience, she brings a wealth of expertise in
Digital transformation and business model innovation within the financial services industry. She has held senior leadership positions in global companies, most recently as Chief Digital Strategy Officer at Liberty Mutual and part of the global senior leadership team, Member ExCom AXAXL, and Aviva. She is a co-author of “The AI Book” and a member of the global list of 100 Women in Fintech. She is the founder/CEO of Eudaimon Consulting, whose mission is to empower financial service companies to navigate challenges and seize opportunities through cutting-edge strategic advisory services focused on a digital and sustainable future. She is an insurance industry advisor to several US-based AI software companies, developing Agentic AI for Insurance. Beyond her professional achievements, Parul is deeply committed to social causes, and is a Trustee and Board advisor to charities and a mentor.
Sarah Ghosh
FCMA, CGMA, Senior Finance Professional at UK Civil Service
Sarah Ghosh is highly respected in the finance and accounting profession globally. Her influence and thought leadership continue to be recognised; she was named as one of the Top 50 Women in Accounting (2023), and Accounting Personality of the Year (2024). Sarah has 20+ years of experience working with finance functions to improve productivity and effectiveness through digital transformation and frontier technologies.
Sarah was appointed President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and co-chair of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA) in 2023, representing the largest and most influential body of professional accountants globally.
Sarah is currently working in the UK Civil Service, leading Finance teams and supporting the UK Government’s Finance Function Strategy with a focus on driving technology adoption and sustainability. Sarah is a trusted advisor and participates in cross-Government initiatives to influence policy in areas such as Quantum technologies, sustainability and regulatory compliance.
Zeina Arnous
Founder & Managing Director at ZExcella
Zeina is a seasoned Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) expert with over two decades of experience in financial services, risk management, internal audit, and regulatory compliance across the GCC, UK, and EU markets. She is the founder of Zexcella, a UK-based GRC advisory firm delivering cross-border regulatory and compliance solutions across the UK and the wider Middle East.
With a forward-thinking approach, Zeina is also a passionate advocate for the responsible and practical integration of Artificial Intelligence into compliance and risk functions. Her work bridges traditional regulatory frameworks with emerging technologies, helping businesses navigate complexity while upholding integrity and trust.
Having worked with regulators, financial institutions, and corporate clients, Zeina brings a global perspective rooted in regional insight—especially in high-growth and tightly regulated markets. She regularly advises on market entry strategies, risk-based governance models, and compliance operating structures for both start-ups and established firms.
Now based in London, Zeina combines entrepreneurial leadership with community values. She is actively fostering dialogue among regulators, legal experts, technologists, and business leaders to shape the future of ethical and effective compliance.
Rishi Raithatha
Director, Data & Insights - Mobile Money at GSMA
Rishi Raithatha is a financial sector specialist, focusing on mobile money, microinsurance and disaster risk financing in low- and middle-income countries.
His recent experience spans senior roles at the GSMA, the mobile industry’s trade association, and Pula Advisors, an insurtech that provides insurance to smallholder farmers. He has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank. Rishi's previous experience includes roles at McKinsey, Willis Towers Watson and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Rishi has a BA from SOAS, University of London, and an MA from the University of Groningen. In 2020, he became a Certified Digital Financial Practitioner. An experienced writer, he also runs a bespoke business writing workshop for individuals and companies.
Melissa Pottenger
VP, Payment Ops at Reach
Melissa Pottenger is an accomplished leader in global payments, with extensive experience
driving strategic partnerships, managing teams, and implementing payments strategy to achieve business objectives. Currently serving as VP of Payment Ops at Reach, she plays a pivotal role in applying industry best practices to maximize Reach's payment processing network.
Before her current role, Melissa held various positions at other globally recognized payments organizations, such as Visa and Worldpay, where she demonstrated proficiency in program management, operational process enhancement, and high-profile client relationship management.
Notably, at Visa, she led the program for Global Endpoint Review, optimizing timely decision-making for endpoint connectivity requests.
With a track record of success in global e-commerce and strategic partnerships, Melissa brings a
wealth of experience to her current role, where she continues to drive innovation and growth in
payment operations.
Kamran Hedjri
Group CEO at PXP
The end-to-end payment platform: PXP Financial provides a single unified payments platform to accept payments online, on mobile and at the point of sale. Powered by inhouse acquiring, 200+ alternative payment methods & financial services, PXP processes over EUR 21.5 billion annually through our unified gateway. Whatever your business needs today or tomorrow, PXP Financials’ innovative payment platform will support your business growth with all the payment services you will ever need from one source, wherever your business takes you.
Stephanos Papadopoulos
Founder & CEO at Spatzia.eu
Stephanos is an International Trusted Advisor, Accredited Coach and Consultant to Founders Entrepreneurs, Business Owners and C-Level Executives. He is also a Board Member, Public Speaker and Podcast Creator & Host. He has first-hand experience in C-Level roles in countries across the globe in high pressure, fast paced, international board rooms and can relate to the opportunities and threats that these environments create for the leaders involved.
Stephanos creates space for his clients, which allows them to fine-tune and increase their creativity, focus and resolve, for what matters to them most. His work with his clients enables their growth and supports them in making bigger, better and more confident decisions on a professional and personal basis.
He has worked in C Suite, Advisory Board and Board of Directors Level positions in strategy, finance and operations, as well as a consultant and coach in numerous industries (financial services, FMCG, retail trade, manufacturing, high tech, education, mining, construction, heavy machinery trading, automobile trade) on an international basis, in companies from start up to mature phase, backed primarily by Family Office, Private Equity and VC funding.
Sulabh Agarwal
Global Payments Lead at Accenture
As our global lead for Payments, Sulabh helps financial institutions and other organizations across the world navigate the shifting payments landscape, combat lost payments revenue, and control and mitigate operational risk throughout the payments value chain. Throughout his career, Sulabh has directed numerous client engagements ranging from defining strategy through to systems integration and implementation. Prior to Accenture, Sulabh worked for Capital One in the cards business. Outside of work, Sulabh likes to spend time with his wife and three kids. He is an engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology and has an MBA from INSEAD.
Willem Wellinghoff
UK Chair & Chief Compliance Officer at Ecommpay
Having joined Ecommpay in 2023, Willem is the Chief Compliance Officer for Ecommpay, and executive director responsible for the compliance, legal and risk strategy of the business.
He is also the founder of Finseco, a boutique advisory service for startups and growth-stage companies in the FinTech and RegTech space. Prior to Ecommpay, Willem was one of the co-founding members of Shieldpay, VP Compliance for LendInvest, and Group Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs for Cabot Credit Management.
Willem has also been a special advisor to the Board of the Credit Services Association (CSA) in connection with consumer credit and debt collection regulation representing the trade association in driving change and working with regulators like the FCA, ICO, OFCOM and the Law Commission.
Gary Palmer
President, CEO & Chairman at Payall Payment Systems
Gary’s the founder and CEO of Payall Payment Systems – the company has built first-ever end-to-end infrastructure for the cross-border ecosystem with breakthrough software for originating institutions, central banks, payment networks and operators, currency traders and liquidity providers as well as clearing institutions and correspondent banks. Capabilities have transformed this high-risk, opaque and inefficient $160 T payment category into a safe, efficient (fast and low cost), transparent and inclusive product that any bank, financial institution, EMI, PI or other regulated entity can offer that’s safe, profitable and delights customers.
Gary’s career in banktech, regtech and Fintech began in 1996 when he co-founded WildCard Systems, the first-ever purpose-built Visa and Mastercard prepaid card issuing platform and some have called the “first Fintech”. WildCard pioneered public APIs to integrate with non-issuers in support of alternative distribution channels for consumer, business and government-funded cards. EFunds acquired WildCard Systems in 2005 for $262 million.
After the sale to Efunds Gary was EVP of global strategic business development, reporting to the Chairman and CEO. Gary was on the executive team that sold Efunds to Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE: FIS) for $1.8 billion in 2007 – double the value of Efunds from the WildCard purchase.
Gary also co-founded and provided funding to Adaptive Payments in 2010 which pioneered 24x7 real-time payments between banks across the PIN debit or EFT networks. Mastercard acquired Adaptive Payments in 2015 and the company’s tech became the foundation for Mastercard Send.
In 2010 Gary received the prestigious Prepaid Industry Achievement Award and he’s an inventor (U.S. patent 9,183,549 issued Nov 10, 2015) for a system and method of secure payment transactions.
Knox Mcilwain
Global Lead Regulatory, Compliance & Licensing Strategy at AIRWALLEX
Knox leads the regulatory, compliance and licensing functions for Airwallex to support its continued expansion to serve new markets. Prior to Airwallex, he was a partner at Allen & Overy and worked in both London and New York at Cleary Gottlieb advising major banking institutions, FMIs, asset managers and G20 governments on financial services and regulatory matters. He started his career as a coder, network architect and entrepreneur.
Emma Joyce
Chief Revenue Officer at Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)
Emma is the Senior Managing Director and Head of EMEA at the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the largest industry association for the blockchain technology and digital assets community. She has over 15 years of experience in the financial services sector, working with regulators, policymakers, members, and partners to advocate and accelerate the adoption of best practices for digital assets. At GBBC, Emma leads the financial services-related activities and oversees the strategic direction and growth of the association in the EMEA region. She also serves as a board director for GBBC USA and GBBC Giving. Previously, she was the Chief Executive Officer of GBBC Digital Finance (GDF). Emma is a recognized thought leader and speaker on policy and regulatory issues related to blockchain and digital assets, and was named one of the top 20 most influential women in crypto by Financial News in 2023.
Clare Pearson
Head of Technology Operations & Delivery Management at Fnality International
Clare is an accomplished payment professional with extensive experience in the Payments and Financial Services industry.
She has a proven track record of delivering strategic and technical initiatives for global
expansion programs, e-commerce, omni-channel solutions, Alternative Payment Methods (APM’s), and domestic and international schemes across various channels and gateways.
With a focus on financial services and in particular payments, Clare excels in developing and implementing road maps, setting priorities, and ensuring the successful delivery of innovative solutions. As a specialist in Payments & Open Banking, she leverages her expertise to drive user-centric product development and enhance customer experience.
She has led transformational change teams within the Payments sector and has held both Product and operational management roles. Clare remains actively engaged with industry updates and the ecosystem, staying closely aligned with regulatory requirements.
In January 2023, Clare was appointed as a panel advisor to the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR). The panel’s role is to contribute to the PSR’s strategy and policy and acts as a ‘critical friend’ by providing advice and early input on both strategic and technical levels.
Rich Wagner
CEO at Zempler Bank
Rich Wagner is CEO and founder of Cashplus Bank, a leading UK fintech challenger, and has over 30 years of experience in payments and banking, including executive roles at Visa, Barclaycard and Providian.
Cashplus was authorised as a UK bank in February 2021 building on its history of fintech and lending innovation and was awarded a BCR Capability and Innovation Fund grant in September 2021 in order to build out its range of smart, simple SME banking and lending products.
Outside of his work at Cashplus, Rich has been an active and vocal industry advocate, is currently a member of the UK Finance Payments Board and earlier played a key role in gaining fair access to UK payments systems for non-banks.
Manish Kumar
Head of Payment Acceptance at Starling Bank
Fintech leader with 20+ years of experience in building & scaling B2B/B2C products innovations (0-10, 10-100, 100-1000), managing global cross-functional teams, related product revenue/P&Ls and delivering complex transformation globally across UK, Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
Jun Cai
Country Head for UK, Germany, Switzerland, Central and Eastern Europe at Alipay+
Jun is based in Munich and has worked for Alipay+ for over seven years. Currently he holds the position of Country Head for key markets across the UK and Europe, driving its growth with local retailers, acquirers and mobile payment partners to support Ant International’s European expansion.
Last year Jun led Ant International and Alipay+’s payment sponsorship of UEFA EURO 2024, which spearheaded a national campaign across Germany to raise brand awareness and support more merchants to accept the Alipay+ mobile payment solution, enabling them to better serve inbound sports tourists.
Prior to this, Jun was Head of Product and Technology for Alipay+ across the EMEA region, where he specialised in topics including payment systems, payment network, blockchain, open banking, banking as a service, and Open API.
Prior to his role at Alipay+, John held positions with Fiducia & GAD IT AG and it-economics GmbH.
Roman Zilber
Founder at Intrepid Fox
Roman Zilber is an international banker with over 30 years of experience at leading US and European banks, including Bank of America, Crédit Agricole, and Raiffeisen. Two years ago, he founded Intrepid Fox—an AI-powered SaaS platform focused on KYB. With deep knowledge of financial operations and where automation often fails, Roman set out to solve a key problem in digital transformation: the messy mix of manual and automated processes. He brings both strategic insight and practical experience to improving compliance and onboarding.
Jürg Baltensperger
Managing Director at JayBee Ltd
Jürg Baltensperger is one of the most experienced and well-known pioneers in the field of regulation & compliance for financial intermediaries in FinTech and Blockchain. As a graduated lawyer, risk manager & business economist and certified Blockchain expert, he covers regulatory aspects in his field of expertise in a holistic approach.
With the consulting firm JayBee he founded in 2017, Jürg and his team support around 120+ financial intermediaries in the areas of fintech & blockchain such as banks, asset managers and crypto exchanges. JayBee serves clients from startup level to international collaborations with regulatory consulting, licensing and outsourcing services. JayBee also provides staff lending & recruiting services and partners with various IT tool provider in order to offer implementation of RegTech solutions.
Jürg teaches in the areas of Corporate Governance, Risk Management & Compliance at universities of applied sciences and set up his own education CAS Digital Compliance Officer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, where compliance officers, auditors & regulators are made fit in the areas of FinTech & Crypto.
Andrew Doukanaris
Chief Executive Officer at Flotta Consulting Ltd
Andrew has been a driving force in the digital payments and FinTech transformation for over three decades. Throughout his global career, he has held senior and executive roles in Singapore, San Francisco, New York, and London.
At Chevron, Texaco, and Caltex, Andrew established and led the global marketing and sales, payments and retailing division across three brands. At Visa, he served as the European and CEMEA head of Merchant Acceptance, Acquiring Services, and Commercial Cards, overseeing operations in more than 120 markets. As Senior Vice President at JCB Cards Europe, he spearheaded the transformation of its acquiring, sales, and marketing divisions. Additionally, he worked as a consultant for Mastercard in Saudi Arabia.
Andrew founded Flotta Consulting Ltd to provide tailored consulting services to start-ups, scale-ups, and established players within the payments ecosystem. He has been appointed to various leadership roles, including Chair, Director, and CEO of Pomelo Pay, Intellias, and as an advisor and CEO for start-ups focused on open banking and QR code payments.
A sought-after commentator and podcaster, Andrew also serves as a FinTech mentor and advisor at Level39, an ambassador and moderator at the UK Payments Association, and a board advisor, event chairman, and moderator at QUBE Events.
Peter-Jan Grech
Founder and CEO at BRND WGN
Peter-Jan Grech, founder and CEO of BRND WGN, is a renowned figure in the realm of brand transformations, boasting over two decades of expertise. His leadership at BRND WGN, a top-tier brand advisory agency with a presence in Malta and the UK, has been instrumental in navigating businesses and leaders through impactful change strategies and brand expansion in multiple sectors, including financial services and hospitality. As a skilled public speaker, Peter-Jan hosts the insightful “UnBrandMe” podcast, delving into the professional paths of entrepreneurs and brand creators. His commitment extends beyond business; he contributes his strategic acumen to various advisory boards, fostering change management. An enthusiastic challenge pursuer, he participates in endurance sports, sometimes for fun but most times to champion sustainable living and environmental conservation.
Eva Taleva-Borislavova
CEO at Remitly Europe Limited
Eva is the CEO of Remitly Europe Limited, a global leader in digital cross-border remittances. Leading the regional strategy and business performance, Eva’s key priorities focus on driving the overall sustainable growth of the business, leading a high performing executive management team, maintaining strong customer centricity across all business operations, and building Remitly Europe's regulatory compliance position within the financial services industry. Eva is accredited as PCF 1 & 8 (Executive Director and Chief Executive) by the Central Bank of Ireland and is an Executive Director on Remitly Europe’s Board of Directors. With over 14 years of experience across the fintech/financial services industry, Eva is passionate about payments, financial inclusion, and sustainable innovation.
Tim Khamzin
CEO at Vivox.AI
Tim is the Founder and CEO of Vivox AI, where he leads the development of AI Digital Workers to streamline compliance operations for banks and fintech companies. With over 10 years of experience in the banking and fintech sectors, Tim began his career at KPMG and went on to lead key initiatives in a digital transformation program at Central Europe’s largest bank, reducing its operational workforce from 24,000 to 5,800 employees. He also scaled a Business Process Outsourcing company to $45M in revenue and developed compliance solutions for Tier 1 banks. Tim holds an MBA from London Business School and is passionate about payments, regtech, and implementing AI applications in compliance..
Steve Whiting
Director of Payments Technology at Soldo
Steve Whiting is responsible for Payments Technology at Soldo (www.soldo.com). Prior to joining forces with the Soldo founding team in 2014, Steve played a key team role in establishing Postilion for S1 as a global retail payments solution and scaling Alaric to the point of acquisition by NCR by repositioning the incumbent products into an API-first payments and AI fraud prevention orchestration suite, both of which were chasm crossing experiences.
Cal Evans
Managing Associate at Gresham International
Cal is the Managing Associate of Gresham International, a legal and compliance firm specialising in the web3 and digital assets space. Cal is an international lawyer with experience working in the UK, UAE, and USA. As an international lawyer, he has assisted countries and regions with their digital asset laws and regulations. In 2019, Cal was the author of 'The Little Book of Crypto'. Alongside his legal work, Cal is also part of the British Blockchain Association and current President of the British AI Association.
Róbert Kiszely
Director of Professional Services at Capsys
Róbert graduated from Eötvös Lóránd Science University in Computer Science. He was hired as the first Capsys employee in 1998. Over the past twenty years, he gained experience in several fields of banking and financial IT: expert consultancy, development, implementation, and support of securities settlement, pension fund administration and payment systems. Róbert has led several domestic and international projects with success. Among others, he is running professional support of Capsys’ international partnership programme, dedicating particular attention to Immediate Payments and PSD2/Open Banking. Róbert has been recognised as one of the leading experts of Immediate Payments and PSD2/Open Banking in Hungary, speaking at numerous conferences on these topics.
John Gidla
Head of Global Regulatory Research & Analysis at Vixio
John brings over a decade of experience in payments, including as an ex-regulator, to his role as Head of Global Regulatory Research and Analysis at Vixio. At Vixio, John leads the global Regulatory Intelligence team to deliver high-value content to clients and stakeholders. His previous roles have included work at the FCA, as a fintech co-founder, and as a regulatory compliance consultant.
Anu Widyalankara
Director, Payments Strategy and Technology at Ernst & Young LLP
Anu is a Payments Strategy and Technology Director at EY LLP in the UK, with over 17 years of experience in financial services. She focuses on complex transformations, M&A integration, strategy development and execution, and new payment product design for financial services and cross-sector clients. She has an emphasis across retail, commercial and investment banking, and wider payments and transactional banking, with exposure across Europe, America, Africa and Asia.
Passionate about long-term value creation, Anu helps clients design and deliver payment transformation, supporting CEOs, CTOs and CIOs with their growth, compliance and modernisation agendas.
Anu's broad range of experience in payments technologies includes Real-Time Payments, ISO 20022, Swift GPI, RTGS, Open Banking, UK New Payments Vision, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), CBDCs, digital assets and fraud. Her extensive experience also spans corporate treasury services, merchant services and payments infrastructure. Additionally, Anu manages key payments sector alliances and advises FinTech firms.
Briony Krikorian-Slade
Principal, Payments & Innovation at UK Finance
Briony Krikorian-Slade is Principal for Payments & Innovation at UK Finance, the trade body representing around 300 financial firms in the UK. She oversees a number of industry projects and policy areas and is coordinating UK Finance’s work on the National Payments Vision. Previously Briony worked at the UK Cards Association leading the programme to expand the use of contactless cards in the UK, including on public transport; and before that, the Association of British Insurers, running projects on motor and liability insurance.
Anton Globus
Group Director: Finance and Innovation at Paysend
Anton leads finance innovation and system change at Paysend. Paysend is a UK-headquartered global fintech on a mission to make cross-border payments simple for everyone whilst building the largest digital payment network.
Prior to Paysend Anton worked on own business projects in SaaS and tourism space, held CFO roles at Barloworld, a listed multinational industrial distributor, and prior to that was involved in consulting.
Anton is a TRIUM EMBA graduate and a Chartered Accountant (SA).
Teresa Cascino
Digital Asset Risk Management Regulatory Lead at Citibank
Teresa is Director of Emerging Innovation Risk Management in Citi's Enterprise Risk Management department, leading on digital assets risk. Before this, she was a senior policy specialist in the Fintech Hub at the Bank of England, monitoring financial stability risks coming from new developments in crypto markets and decentralised finance, and, if needed, promoting new regulation to mitigate them. She has been particularly involved in the development of the Financial Stability Board regulatory approach to crypto and decentralised finance.
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