Episode 80: News from The FinTech Front (May)

May 31, 2021 Ajit Tripathi Breaking Banks Europe 48:14 Comments Off on Episode 80: News from The FinTech Front (May)

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Your bimonthly instalmment of “News From The FinTech Front” is here for its May Edition, and this time Ajit Tripathi takes the lead, removes all filters and hosts this energetic trio to discuss all the buzzwords and trending news together with Iana Dimitrova (OpenPayd) and Ronit Ghose (Citi)!

More on our guests:
Iana Dimitrova – Chief Executive at OpenPayd
Iana sets the strategic direction and vision for OpenPayd and leads the Executive Team. She has extensive experience in the fintech and payments industries. Prior to joining OpenPayd, Iana served in positions with increasing responsibility at Paysafe and previous to that she was working in private practice as a corporate lawyer.
Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iana-dimitrova-575b291b/
OpenPayd: https://www.openpayd.com/

Ronit Ghose – Global Head – Banks Research & Co-Head – FinTech Theme Group, Citi
Ronit Ghose is the lead author of Citi’s GPS Bank of the Future and FinTech report series – the first edition has had more than 250,000 downloads making it the most read report ever published by Citi, and one of the most read FinTech reports ever published. Since joining Citi in 1997, Ronit has covered banks in the Americas, Asia and EMEA. He isGlobal Sector Head for Banks and Co-Head of the FinTech Theme Group in Citi Research. He is also an Advisory Board Member at the Centre for Finance, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Ronit previously worked at the British Bankers’ Association and as a research assistant in Parliament.
Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronit-ghose-86033610/
Citi: https://www.citi.com/

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About the Author
Ajit is the founder of Asango, a London Based global fintech consultancy that provides advisory services to fintech companies using Machine Learning and Blockchain Technology to deliver superior user experiences in financial services. Ajit is also the blockchain and cryptocurrency correspondent for Breaking Banks Podcast, the number 1 fintech podcast in the world. Prior to this, Ajit was the global Fintech leader with ConsenSys in the London Office and a director in Fintech and Digital Banking at PwC where he co-founded the blockchain practice. Ajit is a well regarded influencer, thinker, blogger and doer in the fintech and blockchain space. In 2017, he was recognised by coindesk as one of the key influencers at large enterprises and served on the Bank of England’s fintech advisory community. He has spoken at prominent fintech and blockchain conferences in the US, UK, Dubai, India, Japan and Hong Kong including Consenus, Money2020 Europe, Finsum Tokyo, Fintech Week and others. He’s been featured in the Breaking Banks, Blockchain Insider and Fintech insider podcasts, contributed to annual coindesk retrospective as well as quoted in the Financial Times, the BBC and a range of other publications. Ajit has served as a mentor at Startup Bootcamp and is currently advising a small number of selected stealth stage startups in fintech and blockchain. Ajit’s previous blockchain engagements include high profile financial services clients such as Bank of England, Nasdaq, Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Boers and MUFG and he’s been instrumental in advising regulators, board level executives and innovation labs across the world in the strategic implications of cryptocurrency, decentralised, peer to peer architectures. Ajit has a rich and varied background in risk and regulatory change program implementation, capital markets technology, distributed systems and telecom protocol engineering. Prior to PwC he served in technology management and innovation roles at Goldman Sachs, Barclays, GE-GXS and Bell Communications Research. Ajit has an MBA from IMD and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is also a CFA charter holder and holds a GARP financial risk manager certification.
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