Antti Arponen | Source | Founder and CEO at Pyypl
Antti Arponen
Antti is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Pyypl, the next generation consumer financial services company in the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. Although he studied Finance at Helsinki School of Economics, and Telecoms Engineering at Helsinki University of Technology, it is the people, creativity, brand and growth that he loves in his workdays. To balance the strategic level, Antti loves being in the field with the sales teams, deep-diving into analytics with the data wizards, brainstorming new products with product managers, planning and optimizing marketing with digital gurus, and overtaking human capabilities with AI and ML algorithms.
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Pyypl
Founder and CEO
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Blockchain Helps Curb X-Border Liquidity Risks
Pyypl CEO Antti Arponen says blockchain technology can help bridge the financial gaps prevalent in emerging and developing markets, including the Middle East.
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So, there’s this massive gap of about 800 million smartphone users who just need to do these daily, business-as-usual payments like [subscribing to] Netflix, [and that’s a gap that] financial providers like us, can help fill. We’re growing so fast right now that some days we need to throttle our product a few times a day, because there’s just so much demand. It sounds really ambitious, but we started so many years ago and we have a handful of licenses [in the UAE, Kenya, Mozambique and Bahrain] and are at very advanced stages, so we will very likely get there.
