FinTech Connect 2023 | Alpha Events | 5 December 2023 | ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL, UK

This event FinTech leaders from the entire FinTech ecosystem for two content packed days where you can hear from and meet global leaders in digital transformation, payments, blockchain and regtech space who are driving the global financial technology industry forwards, all under one roof. With more free content on the exhibition floor than ever before, you can't afford to miss out networking face-to-face with the other attendees - whether in a session, over lunch or a glass of wine - you need to be at Europe's most innovative FinTech event.

2023 Speakers

Christian Agius
Co-Founder & COO/CFO, Fyorin

Nasir Ahmed
Head of Swift UK & Ireland, Swift

Lale Akoner
Multi-Asset Portfolio Manager, Newton Asset Management

Robin Amlôt
Managing Editor, IBS Intelligence

Tobias Angehrn
CEO, TRESIO AG

Meryem Arik
CEO and Co-Founder, TitanML

Shilpa Arora
Anti-Financial Crime Director, ACAMS

Toby Babb
CEO, Harrington Starr

De Quincey Bailey
Illicit Finance Lead Fraud Investigation Service, Organised Crime Operations, HMRC

Brian Baldachino
Head of Lending Strategy & Corporate Development, Allica Bank

Riccardo Balsamo
CEO, Delega

Keith Bear
Fellow, Centre for Alternative Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School

David Beer
Global Head of Enterprise Solutions, Cogo

Nabeelah Begum
CEO, RAML

Kate Bohn
Advisor/ Mentor, Fintech innovation lab london

Jason Boud
CEO, RegTech Associates

Christine Brofald
Customer Solutions Director, Chimnie

Anette Brolos
Director and Founder, Finthropology

Mariya Brown
Head of EMEA Innovation, BNY Mellon

Glenn Burgess
CMO, FINTECH Circle

Daragh Burke
Director, Digital Product, Virgin Media 02

Damien Burke
CEO, Custom Credit

Jehangir Byramji
Emerging Technology & Innovation. Chief Technology Office, Lloyds Banking Group

Adrian Cannon
CEO, TribeHive

Mike Carter
Head of Platform Lending and Senior Policy Advisor, Innovate Finance

Cristian Cengher
Head of Payment Operations and Clearing, Erste Group

Emma Cherniavsky
CEO, UK for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Susanne Chishti
CEO, FINTECH Circle

Mona Christensen
Head of Client Outcomes, Hargreaves Lansdowne

Will Cooper
Digital Commissioning Executive Editor for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds, BBC

Andrea Cosentino
Founder & Managing Partner, Impact Fundry

Zacc Couldrick
CEO, eSIM GO

Janet Coyle
Managing Director, Grow London

Joan Cuko
Senior Product Manager, Vodafone

David Cunnigham
Head of Strategy & Partnerships for Digital Assets, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi

Lucas Dalglish
Chief Commercial Officer, Jaja Finance

Rahul Das
Director of Payments, LiveScore/VirginBets

Adam Davis
Associate Partner, Bain and Company

Alexandru Dorabantu
Senior Director Global Payments, Delivery Hero

Floris Dorgelo
Global Impact Lead, Adyen

Michael Dowds
Interim Head of Digital, Innovation and Design, RBS International

Simon Eacott
Head of Payments, NatWest

Adrian Edelmann
CEO, Instimatch Global AG

Nadia Edwards-Dashti
Chief Customer Officer, Harrington Starr

Maria Elm
Senior Analyst Banking, Insider Intelligence

Andy Elphick
Head of Innovation - interim, Barclays

Samantha Emery
Director, Payments Industry and Development, Lloyds Banking Group

Will Ephraim
Business Developer, eliq

Karien Esterhuyse
Chief Analytics Officer, Jaja Finance

Adrian Evans
Director, Payments Leaders Advisory

Cian Fitzpatrick
SVP, Head of EMEA, Transfermate

Andreas Flodström
CEO and Co-Founder, Beetroot & Beetroot Academy

Anthony Flynn
Sales and Partnerships Director, Prometheus

Lisa Frazier
COO, Judo Bank

Christian Fries
Head of Model Development, DZ Bank

Rob Furness
Director of Sales & Marketing, Ledgerflow

Alexey Gabsatarov
CTO, Kroo Bank

Michael Galvin
Co-Founder and CCO, TOQIO

Rob Garlick
Head of Innovation, Technology and the Future of Work, Citi Global Insights

Abraham Georgakarakos
VP Digital, Virgin Media 02

Elena Gomez
EMEA Head of Domestic Payments and Receivables, Acting Global Head of Instant Payments, Citi

Matthias Greiller
MLRO, Bitcoin Suisse AG

Carol Hagh
CEO and NED, Independent

Ali Hamriti
CEO & Co-Founder, Rollee

Daniel Harman
CEO, Darksquare

Marcel Harmann
CEO, THORWallet

David Harris
Head of Banking and Markets, Baringa Partners

Hedi Hayouni
Commercial Lead, Collect & Issuing, UK, Rapyd

Mark Hipperson
Founder and Executive Chairman, Ziglu

Janine Hirt
CEO, Innovate Finance

John Ho
Head, Legal, Financial Markets, Standard Chartered

Declan Hourihan
EMEA Domestic Payments Product, Citi

Simon Hunt
Business and Technology Correspondent, Evening Standard

Amelia Isaacs
Senior Reporter, AltFi

Stephen Issacs
Chairman, George Harrison Limited

Matthew Jackson
VP, Relationship Management & Marketing, FreemarketFX

Julian Jacobs
Senior Economist, OMFIF

Ankit Jain
Managing Director - Senior Data, Technology & Transformation Advisor, Independent

Lukas Jakubonis
Chief Business Development Officer, Bank of Lithuania

Richard Jones
Head of Invesment Risk Analysis, AXA Investment Managers

Niyati Joshi
Member, Women of FinTech

Neil Kadagathur
Co-Founder & CEO, Creditspring

Alexander Karichensky
CEO, Digicode Europe

Pavlo Kartashov
CEO, Ukrainian Startup Fund

Ebru Keskin
Independent Consultant

Saira Khan
Head of Innovation and Partnerships, First Direct Bank (HSBC)

Irfan Khan
CEO, mmob

Hanna Khrystianovych MBA
Head of Products & Partnerships, Sigma Software Group, FinTech expertise Lead

Stefan Klauser
CEO, Aisot Technologies AG

Peter Kohl-Landgraf
Senior Business Analyst, DZ Bank

Eriona Kola
Digital Product Manager, BT

Stephan Kolz
CEO & Co-Founder, Yourasset AG

Elena Kovacheva
Senior Consultant, Capitalixe

Geraldine Kraev
Innovation Manager, Global Innovation, FCA

Christian Kramer
Head of Payments Partnerships & Group Payments Strategy, Lloyds Banking Group

Levent Künzi
CEO and Co-Founder, Properti

Marion Laboure
Director, Macro Strategist, Deutsche Bank

Emma Landriault
Vice President, Product Management, Onyx Coin Systems, J.P. Morgan

Christophe Langlois
Co-Chair, EMEA, Fintech B2B Marketing Community

Daniel Lanyon
Editorial Director, AltFi

Alina Lapusneanu
Chief Executive Officer, FISKL Accounting

Elizabeth Leather
Policy Manager, Bank of England

Douglas Mackenzie
Chief Content Officer, FF News

Joy Macknight
Editor, The Banker

Havi Majinithan
Open Banking Business Operations Lead, Lloyds Banking Group

Sotiris Manderis
Co-Founder, FinSmart

Laurent Marochini
Head of Innovation, Société Générale Securities Service

Daniel Marovitz
Senior Vice President of FinTech, Booking.com

Rita Martins
FS Executive, Board Member and Author, Independent

Richard Maton
Director, Aperio Strategy

Jason Maude
Chief Technology Officer, Starling Bank

Madhvi Mavadiya
Head of Content, Finextra

Rosie Mcconnell
Product Director, IFX Payments

Oonagh McGrane
Director, Commercialization, Lloyds Banking Group

David McHenry
Managing Director, Head of Global Treasury & Payments Advisory - UK, HSBC Innovation Banking

Lee McNabb
Payments Strategy Lead, NatWest

Jacob Mendel
Head of Cryptography & Cybersecurity, State Street

Nicholas Miller
Director of UK Partnerships, Trading View

Donald Milligan
Head of Risk, Freemarket

Olivia Minnock
Senior Partnerships Manager, mmob

Deeptasree Mitra
Managing Director, Open Banking and Embedded Finance, Deutsche Bank

Nina Mohanty
Founder, Bloom Money

Graeme Moore
Head of Tokenization, Polymesh

Erik Morgan
Group Financial Crime Prevention - Lead Global Risk Model, SEB

Hazal Muhtar
Director - Global Product Analytics, Wise

Lucy Mullins
Co-Founder and CEO, StepLadder

Andrew Murray
Global Head of Institutional Strategic Investments, Citi Bank

Wasim Mushtaq
Interim COO, CFIT

Tao Nadine Baker
Head of Digital Innovation, Chair Women in Tech, perrmanent tsb

Philippe Naegeli
Founder & CEO, GenTwo AG

Ashwani Nair
Digital Pricing Product Manager, Vodafone

Ninika Nanda
Head of Product Management, comparethemarket

Roberto Napolitano
Director of Marketing and Communications, Innovate Finance

Professor Dr Naseem Naqvi MBE
President, The BBA

Anirudh Narla
Head of Product, Payments & Fraud, hopper

Steve Naude
Managing Director, Wise Platform, Wise

Erlend Nitter Hauge
Head of FinTech Partnerships, DNB

Ayesha Ofori
Founder and CEO, Propelle

Matt Ong
Founder and CEO, Ctrl Alt

Matthew Osborne
Senior Manager, Payments Policy, Bank of England

David Palmer
Blockchain Lead, Vodafone

Robert Pasco
CEO, Plend

Ali Paterson
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, FF News

Joao Pinho
Head of UK High Growth Tech Sales, Executive Director, JP Morgan Payments

Isabel Pitt
Payments, Product & Digital Transformation Strategist, Independent

Susana Ponce-Fremont
Global Head of Financial and Credit Risk, Tide

Volodymyr Potapenko
Co-founder and Managing Partner, 8allocate

Thomas Rappold
CEO & Co-Founder, Divizend Suisse GmbH

Sonal Rattan
Co-Founder, eXate

Alex Reddish
Managing Director, Tribe Payments

Santosh Reyes
CEO and Founder, DLT Apps

Peter Richmond
Co-Founder, CCO & COO, Cubed

Gary Robberts
CRO, Forrit

Ralph Rogge
CEO, Crezco

Emma Ronayne
Fintech Investment Manager, Lloyds Banking Group

Lily Russell-Jones
Senior Money Reporter, The Times

Gabriele Sabato
CEO and Co-Founder, Wiserfunding

Shameer Sachdev
Host, Fintech Marketing & Leaders Podcast

Doychin Sakutov
Director Experimentation & Optimisation, Virgin Media 02

Nicole Sandler
Head of Digital Policy, Barclays

Bhavna Saraf
Head of Payments Products & Propositions, Santander

Dastan Shukanayev
Senior Payments Technology & Strategy, Marks and Spencer

Sergio Signoretti
CFO, lasminute.com

Navpreet Singh Randhawa
Chief Financial and Commercial Officer, Minna Technologies

Oliver Smith
Managing Editor and Head of Content, AltFi

Joachim Soderling
Senior Manager, Discover Global Network

Paul Staples
Head of Embedded Banking, ClearBank

Phil Starret
CTO and Director, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe

Dmitriy Strelchuk
Strategy & Operations Lead, Revolut

David Sully
CEO & Co-Founder, Advai

Paul Swinton
Co-CEO and Co-Founder, B4B Payments

Jeremy Takle
Co-Founder and CEO, Pennyworth

Lee Taylor
CFO, OnlyFans

Pallavi Thakur
Director, CBDC and Interoperability, Swift

Daniel Thomas
Global Media Editor, Financial Times

Peter Thomas
Senior Manager, RegTech, Bank of England

Danielle Treharne
Head of EMEA & APAC, Remitly

Jason Trost
Founder & CEO, smarkets

Dr Mark Turkington
Advisor and Consultant, Clientism

Anna Tutova
CEO, Coinstelegram

Mukund Umalkar
Director of Fintech Partnerships, ING

Bhavin Vagella
Global Head of Strategic Partnerships, RationalFX

Paiak Vaid
VP of Global Partnerships, TrueLayer

Mike Vallance
Managing Director and Global Transaction Banking Head - Wealth Management & Personal Banking, HSBC

Rutger Verhoef
CEO & Founder, GOWAGO AG

Rich Wagner
CEO and Founder, Cashplus

Mark Walker
Editorial Director, The Fintech Times

Chris Waring
Head of Digital Journeys, NatWest

Layla White
CEO and Founder, TechPassport

David Williams
UK Banking and Capital Markets Technology Consulting Leader, EY

Jonathan Woodhouse
Business Development Representative, COAX Software

Klaus Xhaxhiu
MLRO, Aion Bank

On Yavin
Founder and Managing partner, Cointelligence

Angela Yore
MD and Co-Founder, Sky Parlour

Phoebe Zhou
Head of Emerging Payments, Europe, HSBC

Tanya Ziv
COO, Yapily

2023 Sponsors

LEAD SPONSORS:
• Discover Global Network
• J.P. Morgan

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Polymesh
• Swift

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Adobe
• DLT Apps
• Forrit
• Freemarket
• IFX Payments
• Kosli
• TrueLayer

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Financial Times
• Rapyd
• TransferMate Global Payments

FOUNDERS FORUM SPONSOR:
• Rise, created by Barclays

START-UP SPONSORS:
• 8allocate
• Advai
• Aisot Technologies AG
• Beetroot
• Betoola
• Chimnie Property Data
• Circles powered by StepLadder
• COAX Software
• Code First Girls
• Crezco
• Delega
• Digicode
• Divizend Suisse GmbH
• eliq
• eSIM Go
• etcho
• FISKL
• GenTwo AG
• GOWAGO AG
• Instimatch Global AG
• Ledgerflow
• Prometheus Technologies
• Properti
• Rollee
• Sigma Software
• Swiss Venture Leaders Fintech
• THORWallet
• TitanML
• TRESIO AG
• Yourasset AG