Europe is the cradle of fintech since it is a global leader in the growth of both financial institutions and financial markets. Over the last few years, the European fintech market has seen significant expansion. Europe makes up 17% of the global cumulative valuation of fintech (around USD 2.26 trillion), its largest venture capital investment category receiving 20% of all venture capital in Europe: a higher percentage than in Asia & the United States.
The FinTech Europe Summit, a virtual expo and summit is an inspiring platform to build connections, educate and explore new business opportunities. A packed day of demos, keynotes, live podcasts, and networking, showcasing the latest in FinTech.
Join us and FinTech leaders from the FinTech ecosystem virtually where you can hear from and meet global leaders in Open Banking, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, DeFi & Cryptocurrency, NFT’s & Web 3.0, Customer Experience, Payments, Digital Banking, Digital Transformation, Insurtech & RegTech, Cyber Security, CBDC’s who are driving the global financial technology industry forwards, all under one roof.
FinTech is becoming mainstream – with more investment than ever before. Meet with the full ecosystem from startup to global financial institution, under one ‘digital’ roof.
VP Head of Products
VP Head of Products
Clement Jozwiak
is VP Product at Worldline Financial Services, where he drives development for Digital Services products in Europe.
He has more than 15 years of experience in developing digital services in the European payments industry, with a strong focus on Digital Banking capabilities and Open Banking services in recent years. He has worked with many banks, but also with merchants, especially regarding Open Banking, always keeping in mind the best customer experience for the end user.
Product-driven mindset, with a desire to work closely with startups or fintech’s to deliver compelling end-to-end services to clients. Clement strongly believes in co-creation and co-innovation in a trusted ecosystem with partners to best meet consumer needs.
Director of Studies, Prospective and Training
Director of Studies, Prospective and Training
Expert in payments and innovative financial services,Andréa Toucinho works in Paris as Director of Studies, Prospective and Training of Partelya Consulting and Country Ambassador for France of European Women Payments Network (EWPN).
France Representative of two fintech associations (Aefi Spain and Afip Portugal), she is author of several publications about payments and a regular speaker in professional events linked with this ecosystem.
CEO and Chairman
CEO and Chairman
Mufti Ismail Ebrahim Desai is an internationally reputed shariah advisor and investment banker who currently serves a special advisor to various Islamic financial institutions, Islamic Banks, investment entities, and educational institutes around the world. Mufti Ismail has developed various Shariah auditing, governance and risk management standards for Islamic financial institutions and has issued several thousand expert legal opinions (fatwas) with a special focus on Islamic finance and economics. Mufti Ismail has attended and delivered papers at international conferences and has created the first ever Shariah Compliant models for leveraged/structured finance and currency trading.
Mufti Ismail has conducted deal advisory of over 4 Billion USD on a range of transactions including complex mergers and acquisitions, divestments, corporate restructures, bond issuances, corporate capital raising, cash management, derivative, structured finance and IPO/LBO/MBO transactions. He is the chairman and advisor to various banks, financial institutions and global funds. He has appeared on various prestigious media such as Bloomberg and Reuters. The Mufti holds an MA, Islamic Banking, MA, Islamic Theology and BSc Banking from the London School of Economics (LSE) among other honorary academic qualifications.
Founder & President
Founder & President
Dikshita Awotarowa is the Founder and President of Women in Finance and Investment Network (WIFIN), a non-profit organization dedicated to giving women the opportunity to receive the highest level of professional education, build credibility, and tap into a global network to pursue a rewarding career in the Finance and Investment industry.
Dikshita currently works at the CGIA Institute, a professional body of Finance and Investment professionals, headquartered in New York – USA. She holds the position of a Financial Markets Research Analyst at the CGIA Africa Regional Operations Office located in Accra, Ghana.
Dikshita has recently graduated from Curtin University with a first-class BCom in Finance (Honours). She also holds a BCom in Banking and Finance (Double major) from the university. She is currently pursuing the CGIA qualifications and has already cleared Level 1 and Level 2.
Aside from her passion for shaping a better place for women in the Finance industry, Dikshita is an ardent lover of dance, music, and arts. She is a trained Kathak dancer and holds a diploma in Performing Arts (Kathak) from the Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Mauritius. She has also been involved in theatrical performances.
Global Reporter
Global Reporter
Gaia Lamperti is a London-based multimedia journalist with over five years of experience in news reporting, web writing, podcasting and visual storytelling. She currently works as a Reporter at pure-play financial technology research, advisory and media firm IBS Intelligence.
Previously, Gaia has also covered technology, design, and sustainability for international publications such as Al Jazeera, Euro news, Domus, Salone del Mobile.
Milano and Coin telegraph. She holds a Master’s degree in International Journalism from City University of London and in 2020 was awarded the Youth Fellowship by the International Monetary Fund.
Managing Editor
Managing Editor
Robin leads IBSi’s editorial business where he plays an important role in the iconic monthly IBSi FinTech Journal publication and drives the firm’s coverage strategy on global Financial Technology news, analysis, and insights. He also leads the firm’s initiatives around events, alliances, webinars, roundtables, podcasts, and a lot more.
Robin comes with more than 30 years of experience as a financial and business journalist and has worked across all media forms, including print, online, broadcast, radio, and TV, as a thought-leader, presenter, producer and guest. This experience is global with a significant portion of it across European and Middle East markets. He has deep experience in a variety of editorial roles, most recently with International Accounting Bulletin, Banker Middle East and Islamic Business & Finance. Some of Robin’s key achievements include being the Managing Editor of a UK personal finance website, authoring a national newspaper column on the online finance sector for a number of years, creating award-winning TV programs about business and finance for Sky News, and being the Financial Editor of Independent Radio News in the UK.
He is also an experienced host of conferences, seminars and round-tables and has created successful events in several different countries in a variety of formats. Robin also writes and contributes to a number of books and pamphlets, including a guide to world financial markets, a study of corporate pensions, four books on various aspects of Islamic finance, guides to investment and financial regulation, and several macro/microeconomics studies.
He has a BA in International Politics from the University of Lancaster and is also qualified as a Financial Adviser, holding the Certificate in Financial Planning.
Chief Customer Officer
Chief Customer Officer
Nadia Edwards-Dashti
co-founded the Harrington Starr Group in 2010, a leading Financial Technology recruitment business with offices in London, New York and Belfast.
In 18 years in the financial services technology sector, she has been responsible for helping over 2000 people find jobs and has grown from a trainee to a Chief Customer Officer.
She runs her own successful Podcast Series ‘FinTech with Nadia: The DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) Discussion’ to story tell the challenges and successes of this industry.
Nadia has written a book through Palgrave Macmillan called, ‘Fintech Women Walk the Talk: Moving the needle for workplace gender equality in financial services and beyond.’
Client Success Lead
Client Success Lead
Olly Richards: As Client Success Lead at 10x Banking, Olly is responsible for leading relationships with some of their biggest clients, particularly focussed on retail banking in Europe. Olly supports clients in understanding how 10x technology can transform the customer experience they can offer, and the business model in which they can do it.
His ability to drive Core Banking transformation programmes ensures clients achieve true business transformation.
Prior to 10x, Olly worked at Barclays in the UK, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy, and led the Retail Savings and Investments offering for Nordea across Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.
Founder & CEO
Founder & CEO
Sonya Barlow is an Award-Winning Entrepreneur, Founder of the LMFNETWORK ed tech and careers platform, Diversity and Inclusion Coach, TEDx Speaker, LinkedIn Changemaker 2021, Radio Host of the BBC Asian Network’s THE EVERYDAY HUSTLE, and author of UNPREPARED TO ENTREPRENEUR. She is an f30u30 runner up 2021 and winner of Women in Tech, UK 2021, Top 50 BAME entrepreneurs and Marie Claire Future Leader 2020.
Chief Experience Officer
Chief Experience Officer
Amber Skinner-Jozefson is the Chief Experience Officer at e.pop (electronic proof of purchase), a digital receipts fintech on a mission to eliminate paper receipt waste. Unsatisfied with carbon neutral, e.pop is targeting carbon negative operations, committing to reforest one million trees by 2025. In addition to her current position, Amber is an operational advisor to people tech start-up Piper and a board trustee for social charity Action West London.
In her career, Amber has gained extensive marketing and management experience. Most recently, she was the CEO of a consumer lending and alt credit score fintech, having joined the company as Chief Product & Marketing Officer. Prior to that, she was the Global Head of Marketing & Communication at SWIFT, and International Marketing Director for Axioma.
Amber received her Bachelor of Arts degree in print journalism from Howard University and her Master of Business Administration degree from Imperial College Business School.
Chairman Of The Board Of Directors
Head of Strategic Relations & Neobank Expert
Head of Strategic Relations & Neobank Expert
Remco is an Expert in FinTech and Challenger Banks, an Experienced business developer, keynote speaker, and mentor in several FinTech accelerator programs such as Startup Wise Guys.
Remco frequently organizes FinTech events on the future of banking aimed at creating a rare conversation between real heavyweights of incumbents, challenger banks, and FinTechs to discuss the future of banking, competition, collaboration, and everything in between.
Co-founder and Managing Director
Co-founder and Managing Director
Angela
is an entrepreneur, PR leader and an influencer in the Fintech sector. Since co-founding SkyParlour in 2009, she has raised the profile of 100s of brands from dynamic start-ups to market leaders in the fintech, mobile, technology and ecommerce sectors.
Angela sits on various Advisory Boards including the Emerging Payments Association, Fintech Connect and the European Women Payments Network. She is the Chair of The Inclusion Foundation Executive Committee and a Governor of Wilmslow High School. She believes passionately in citizenship, the power of communities coming together and striving to make the world a better place.
Angela loves being an international speaker and presenter with previous engagements at world class events including Money2020, Finnovate, Fintech Connect, Internet Retailing and Pay360.
She is a Chartered Marketer from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Chairman
Pedro Pinto Coelho: Innovative, agile, and multi award-winning banking leader with over 25 years' international financial services experience with leading blue-chip institutions across three continents in progressive leadership roles, both executive and Non-Executive Director, in Investment Banking, Wealth Management, general management, business development, strategy and latterly in FinTech.
His value proposition is centered around enabling challenger banks to establish strategic partnerships with FinTechs to create profitable financial products using an “open architecture model”.
Expert in driving digital banking transformations both in terms of creating “best in class” digital customer experiences and transforming key internal support functions to fully align with the overall digital transformation programs of financial institutions.
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and CEO
Valeria
is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fondy, an innovative online payments solution with global coverage and an ever-expanding portfolio. With over 8 years of experience in financial services, Valeria is an innovative key player in FinTech, committed to channeling her influence to support and increase inclusion within the eCommerce space.
Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in nurturing passion and innovative advancements in today's world, so for Valeria entrepreneurs are the biggest drivers of the economy. In support of this, she developed an educational platform for those who want to start and scale their businesses. The core aim being to transfer valuable knowledge to those wanting to start a business or scale one.
An ambassador of the European Women Payments Network and a proactive champion of women in FinTech, Valeria works with the EWPN to support and mentor many other women entrepreneurs.
Thought Leader Metaverse, Advisory Board Member GenTwo
Thought Leader Metaverse, Advisory Board Member GenTwo
Dr. Martha Boeckenfeld has extensive experience of the platform economy, dynamic ecosystems, digital business, digital transformation and customer experience. She is a Thought Leader, who is passionate about Tech, Blockchain and the Metaverse, and strongly believes that the key factors for dynamically driving digital transformation are the mindset of digital leaders and the power of innovation to develop and execute forward-thinking concepts.
Dr. Boeckenfeld has more than over 20 years of experience and international exposure (Asia, Europe, Switzerland) as Financial Service Executive and Non-Executive in Institutions, such as UBS, Unicredit, Generali, Kleinwort Benson and Axa.
She is a Member of the Advisory Board of GenTwo, an investment firm focused on making assets bankable, investable, and manageable. She is also an Ambassador for Beyond Gender Agenda which seeks to improve the long-term international competitiveness of the German economy by integrating Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) into the DNA of listed and medium-sized companies.
Head of Innovation and Payments
Head of Innovation and Payments
Diederik Bruggink holds responsibility at the two savings and retail banking associations for all payments topics from a worldwide perspective. In that role, he analyses the multiple dimensions of the payments market, proposing and assisting in agreeing member positions with respect to their payments’ and related businesses. He is also advocates the associations’ positions on payments with policymakers, regulators, standardization bodies, industry associations, and enabling a constant member dialogue on developments, with a particular focus on innovation.
He is one of the key authors of the first three editions of the World Payments Report, makes regular appearances at industry conferences and serves as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems. He is also a Board Member of the European Payments Council, a Member of the European Commission’s Payment Systems Market Expert Group and the European Central Bank’s Digital Euro Market Advisory Group.
Global Vice President - Banking and Financial Services
Global Vice President - Banking and Financial Services
Gopal works as Global Vice President - Banking and Financial Services at Insider based in Singapore. Previously he used work as Director – Financial Services/South East Asia in Deloitte Southeast Asia and ASEAN FinTech leader with EY. He holds a 13+ years of diversified consulting experience of working with global fortune Banking, Financial Services, Insurance and Technology companies based in USA, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines) Gopal brings unique expertise of cards and payments, mortgages, wallets, Insurance, capital markets, loyalty on the domain side and business strategy, innovation consulting, digital transformation, IT advisory on the competencies. In lead multiple FinTech initiatives in ASEAN and supporting teams in Russia, Poland, Middle east etc.
He is an MBA graduate from the Premier business schools of USA (HULT International Business School) with an electrical engineering background. He is an active speaker in the region spoken so far in 400+ conferences on diversified forums and topics. Few of his recent presentations subjects include digital banks, sales transformation, Financial Inclusion strategy, Open API and Platform based business models, Block chain, AI, Banking innovations, Islamic Fintech etc.
Represented the firm on multiple digital and fintech forums and very proactive in establishing relationships with industry ecosystem (Central banks, FI, FinTech , VC’s, etc) and managing alliances to the firm. He also acts as a FinTech mentor and sits on advisory panel of few universities
Head of SEBx
Founder & CEO
Worldline is a global leader in the payments industry and the technology partner of choice for merchants, banks and acquirers. Powered by 20,000 employees in more than 50 countries, Worldline provides its clients with sustainable, trusted and innovative solutions fostering their growth.
Services offered by Worldline include instore and online commercial acquiring, highly secure payment transaction processing and numerous digital services. In 2021 Worldline generated a proforma revenue close to 4 billion euros.
