Fintech speakers

Speakers

Aleksi Grym

Head of fintech

Bank of Finland

Aleksi Grym is head of fintech at the Bank of Finland. He leads a team that manages a portfolio of projects related to fintech, new payment technologies and digital currencies. He is a member of the Eurosystem's digital euro project steering group. Before joining the Finnish central bank he worked in the consulting and technology investment industry for 15 years in London and Helsinki.

Johannes Turner

Director of the statistics department

National Bank of Austria

Johannes Turner is director of the statistics department of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), which is in charge of compiling and analyzing monetary, interest rate, supervisory and external statistics, of maintaining Austria’s Central Credit Register and of generating company ratings. He is a member of the ESCB Statistics Committee (STC) and Austrian representative on the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics (CMFB) in Luxembourg. Since 2013, Johannes Turner has been OeNB representative at the European Statistical Forum (ESF) and since 2019, he has been president of the European Committee of the Central Balance-Sheet Data Offices (ECCBSO). He is a member of the European Recovery Program (ERP) Audit Committee and an Advisory Board Member of the Statistics Council at Statistics Austria, since 2020 chair of the quality committee of the Statistics Council Austria. In 2014/2015, he chaired the STC Task Force on the European Reporting Framework. Since October 2019, he has been chair of the Task Force from Micro to Macro and from Macro to Micro data, which aims at enhancing the classification of the large volumes of available microdata to allow for better data utilization.

In 2015, the OeNB’s Statistics Department was extended to comprise the OeNB’s bank resolution activities.

Johannes Turner was promoted to his current position in June 2010 after having worked on banking supervision at the OeNB for 18 years, ultimately as Head of the Off-Site Banking Analysis Division from 2008. He started his career at Raiffeisen Zentralbank Vienna (1985–1986). From there, he moved on to Fessel+GfK Institute for Market Research (1986–1992), where he held the position of assistant to the management.

Johannes Turner holds a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Vienna.

Lukasz Kubicki

Head of the supervision technology section

European Central Bank

Lukasz Kubicki is the head of the supervision technology section at the European Central Bank. His team is responsible for driving the implementation of cutting-edge technologies across the ECB Banking Supervision. Lukasz joined the SSM in 2015 and since then he has led a number of SSM-wide projects and initiatives. Before, he has also worked in McKinsey&Co managing engagements in the area of strategy and digitalisation in the banking sector.

Julapa Jagtiani

Senior economic advisor and economist

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Julapa Jagtiani joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia as a special advisor in the Supervision, Regulation, and Credit Department in 2008. In this role, she has conducted research and participated in or led several supervisory policy and implementation projects, including CCAR stress testing, recovery and resolution plans, and Basel II qualification reviews for large and complex financial institutions, with a focus on the use of quantitative methods and models for risk management. She is also a fellow member of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and a Central Bank Research Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements. A career highlight has been contributing to the discussion around the potential impacts of fintech and considerations for shaping future fintech regulations that protect consumers and encourage innovation. 

Previously, Jagtiani was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City and Chicago. Before joining the Federal Reserve System in 1998, she was associate professor of finance at Baruch College and assistant professor of finance at Syracuse University.

Jagtiani has made significant contributions in the fields of financial institutions, financial markets, and bank supervision and regulation. She publishes research in top finance journals, organizes conferences to connect regulators with academics and industry leaders, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and forums. Her research areas include banking policy-related issues, including too big to fail, systemic risk and financial stability, Basel II capital regulations, mergers and acquisitions, mortgages and home equity issues, and credit risk models and management. Her more recent research has focused on issues related to fintech, use of alternative data and AI/ML in credit decisions, small business lending, and community bank mergers.

Jagtiani has been active in the community and has served on the board of directors and finance committees at various organizations, including the Leadership Council Board of Directors for the American Red Cross, the Center for Practical Bioethics, and the Parents Council at Johns Hopkins University; she also belongs to the Union League of Philadelphia. Jagtiani has a Ph.D. in finance and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business, where she held the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.

 

David Hardoon

chief data officer

former Monetary Authority of Singapore

David Hardoon is chief data and AI officer at Union Bank of the Philippines, chief data officer at UnionDigital, chief data and innovation officer at Aboitiz and group managing director at Aboitiz Data Innovation.

Concurrently David is an external advisor to Singapore's Corrupt Investigation Practices Bureau (CPIB) in the capacity of senior advisor (Artificial Intelligence) and to Singapore's Central Provident Fund Board (CPF) in the capacity of senior advisor (Data Science). Prior to his current roles, David was Monetary Authority of Singapore'd (MAS) first appointed chief data officer and head of Data Analytics Group reporting to the agency Deputy Managing Director for Financial Supervision and subsequently Special Advisor (Artificial Intelligence) reporting to Deputy Managing Director for Markets and Development. In these roles he led the development of the AI strategy both for MAS and Singapore’s financial sector as well as driving efforts in promoting open cross-border data flows. David holds a PhD in Computer Science in the field of Machine Learning from the University of Southampton and graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London with First Class Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse

Senior director department of data management and analytics

Bank of Thailand

Dr. Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse is Senior Director and Head of Data Management and Analytics at Bank of Thailand. Before joining BOT, he served as the 21st Century Leadership Endowed Chair in Engineering, Professor of Industrial Engineering, and Co-Director of the Institute of Advanced Data Analytics at the University of Arkansas. He previously held faculty positions at University of Washington, Princeton University and Rutgers University. Before working in academia, he worked at the Corporate Strategic Research, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering. He currently holds three patents of seizure prediction system and an intellectual property on opioid risk prediction tools. He has been invited to give lectures in top institutions around the world including Amazon, Facebook, MIT, Princeton University, University of Michigan, University of London, National University of Singapore, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Seoul National University, and KAIST.

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Yutaka Soejima

head of fintech center, payment and settlement systems department, deputy director-general of the department

Bank of Japan

Yutaka SOEJIMA is a head of Fintech Center and Deputy Director-General of Payment and Settlement Systems Department in the Bank of Japan.  He joined the Bank in 1990 and mainly worked in research sections covering financial markets, bank supervision, macro prudence, financial engineering, risk management, payment and settlement systems and economic developments.  Some of his papers applied state-of-the-art technology like AI, high frequency data, Artificial markets, social network analysis, GIS and text analysis for the Bank’s current concerns.  He engaged in the first issue of “Financial System Report” and “Market Review”, a forerunner of “BOJ Review”.  He holds a MA in Economics from University of Washington and a BA from Kyoto University.

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Assylbek Davletov

Chief fintech officer

Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA)

Assylbek Davletov, is Chief FinTech Officer and the Member of the Executive Body at the Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA). Mr. Davletov is responsible for development of regulatory policies aimed at facilitating the adoption of technological innovations in the financial services industry, and deployment of AIFC Fintech Regulatory Sandbox.

Mikhail Gavasheli

Acting head of fintech and model risk division

National Bank of Georgia

Mikhail Gavasheli’s background is in mathematical statistics. He has an MS degree from Northeastern University, Boston, where I also did some PhD studies. He has 25-year experience in banking sector, has held various positions in the Risk Management area of large commercial banks in USA and Georgia. He has been with the National Bank of Georgia since 2013, most recently as an Acting Head of Fintech and Model Risk Division.

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Stephen Mwaura

Chairman, Fintech Institute & former head of national payments systems

Former Central Bank of Kenya

Stephen is an international consultant with broad expertise for over 25 years in digital financial services, payment systems, central banking practices and legal and regulatory frameworks. Prior to working as an International consultant, Stephen was in charge of the National Payments System division at the Central Bank of Kenya, where he championed financial inclusion initiatives in Kenya- key among them was the globally recognised M-Pesa platform run by Safaricom which currently has 27 million subscribers, equivalent to a penetration rate of 75% in mobile money sector. 

Stephen has considerable experience working with a wide range of stakeholders in the digital financial world (Telecommunication firms, Banks, donor organisations, Treasury, other regulators). At a regional level, he has extended his leadership expertise in the harmonisation of various initiatives at an East Africa Community (EAC) level. At an international level, he is a regular contributor and an acclaimed global speaker at both International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) fora. In addition, he has excellent research capabilities and is frequently requested to carry out peer review assignments and book reviews for colleagues in the industry

Alexandros Kaliontzoglou

information security and risk management expert

Bank of Greece

Dr. Alexandros Kaliontzoglou obtained his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2000 and his Ph.D. in information systems security in 2006 from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He has extensive experience in the consultant and banking industries and has participated in several E.C. research projects in the fields of information systems security, e-business and e-government. He has over 20 scientific publications in the above areas. Since 2009 he has been working as an expert in information systems security and risk management for the Financial Stability Department of the Bank of Greece. He has worked for 10 years in the field of Payment Systems Oversight, with significant contribution in payment instrument related policy development, especially in the context of PSD2. Since 2019, he has been working in Macroprudential Policy, and his responsibilities currently focus on cyber security, FinTech and real estate related risks. He is the coordinator of the team supporting the Bank of Greece Innovation Hub since April 2021 and a member of the Regulatory Sandbox Operations Team. He is a member of the ESRB European Systemic Cyber Group, the European Forum of Innovation Facilitators and the Eurosystem Innov8 Forum.

Majid Malaika

lead digital transformation and cyber security risk

International Monetary Fund

Dr. Majid Malaika joined the International Monetary Fund early 2015 and have built the Application Security practice at the IMF from the ground up; he is currently the lead digital transformation and cybersecurity risk within the Digital Advisory Unit in ITD. Dr. Malaika’s current focus is to enable the IMF to experiment and research emerging technologies/solutions such as blockchain/DLT, smart contract, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, open banking, digital assets, smart contracts, DeFi and its impact to the IMF Technical Assistance missions, growth and stability for the Fund’s member countries. Dr. Malaika received his M.S degree in Computer Engineering and his Doctorate Degree in Software Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. His research has been published in various journals and conferences including the CorssTalk Department of Defense(DoD) journal. Dr. Malaika’s prior engagements were application and architecture security specialist and security consulting for leading educational technology companies and multinational financial firms in New York, NY. His work experience includes threat modeling, architecture risk analysis, risk management, secure code review, and penetration testing; in addition to researching the security of Fintech topics such as Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), smart contract, open banking and many more.

David Lewis

managing director and Global Head of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Advisory,

Kroll

David leverages extensive global experience helping governments, supervisors and regulated firms effectively combat money laundering. Prior to joining Kroll, David served as Executive Secretary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), where he led the FATF Secretariat in bringing to bear the combined expertise of governments to fight money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. This included understanding risks, trends and methods; developing global standards and guidance; and assessing the effectiveness of action taken by governments. David established the first FATF training institute and global training program for government officials.

Howard Cooper

managing director and co-head of the Global Financial Investigations practice

Kroll

Howard leverages extensive experience investigating, detecting, preventing and recovering the proceeds of fraud, money laundering and corruption. Howard is a forensic accountant and has led complex cross-border fraud investigations for corporates, financial institutions and government bodies. He specializes in working with large complex data sets and using data analytics to identify wrongdoing, trace funds, identify assets and support recovery actions. He designs ABC and AML/CFT and fraud risk assessments and compliance reviews for multinational corporations and financial institutions. He also has broad experience working with regulators, Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), prosecuting bodies and financial institutions to conduct financial investigations and provide anti-money laundering (AML)/countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) advisory services.

Douglas Arner

Kerry Holdings professor in law

University of Hong Kong

Douglas W. Arner is the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, RGC Senior Fellow in Digital Finance and Sustainable Development and Associate Director of the HKU-Standard Chartered Foundation FinTech Academy at the University of Hong Kong. In addition, he is Associate Dean (Taught Postgraduate and Development) of the Faculty of Law at HKU and co-founder and former Director of HKU’s Asian Institute of International Financial Law, as well as Faculty Director and co-founder of the LLM in Compliance and Regulation, the LLM in Corporate and Financial Law, the Law, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (LITE), and the East Asian International Economic Law and Policy Programmes. Douglas served as Head of the HKU Department of Law from 2011-2014, as Director of the Duke University-HKU Asia America Institute in Transnational Law from 2005-2016, and as an inaugural member of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council from 2013-2019. In 2020 he was awarded an inaugural Hong Kong Research Grants Council Senior Fellowship to study the role of digital finance in financial inclusion and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Douglas is a Visiting Professor and Senior Visiting Fellow of Melbourne Law School of the University of Melbourne, a Visiting Professorial Fellow of the Faculty of Law of UNSW Sydney, a non-executive director of NASDAQ and Euronext listed biotechnology firm Aptorum Group, an Advisory Board Member of the Global Impact FinTech (GIFT) Forum, Policy 4.0 and of the Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE), and co-founder and an executive board member of the Asia Pacific Structured Finance Association. Douglas has published eighteen books and more than 200 articles, chapters and reports on international financial law and regulation, including most recently Reconceptualising Global Finance and its Regulation (Cambridge 2016) (with Ross Buckley and Emilios Avgouleas) and The RegTech Book (Wiley 2019 (Janos Barberis and Ross Buckley). His recent papers are available on SSRN at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=524849 , where he is among the top 50 authors in the world and among the top 15 authors in the area of law by total downloads. Douglas led the development of Introduction to FinTech – launched with edX in May 2018 and now with over 100,000 learners spanning almost every country in the world – and the foundation of the edx-HKU Online Professional Certificate in FinTech. In addition, he has served as a consultant with, among others, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UN, APEC, Alliance for Financial Inclusion, and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has lectured, co-organised conferences and seminars and been involved with financial sector reform projects around the world. Douglas has been a visiting professor or fellow at Duke, Harvard, the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, IDC Herzliya, McGill, Melbourne, National University of Singapore, University of New South Wales, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Zurich, among others.Douglas W. Arner is the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, RGC Senior Fellow in Digital Finance and Sustainable Development and Associate Director of the HKU-Standard Chartered Foundation FinTech Academy at the University of Hong Kong. In addition, he is Associate Dean (Taught Postgraduate and Development) of the Faculty of Law at HKU and co-founder and former Director of HKU’s Asian Institute of International Financial Law, as well as Faculty Director and co-founder of the LLM in Compliance and Regulation, the LLM in Corporate and Financial Law, the Law, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (LITE), and the East Asian International Economic Law and Policy Programmes. Douglas served as Head of the HKU Department of Law from 2011-2014, as Director of the Duke University-HKU Asia America Institute in Transnational Law from 2005-2016, and as an inaugural member of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council from 2013-2019. In 2020 he was awarded an inaugural Hong Kong Research Grants Council Senior Fellowship to study the role of digital finance in financial inclusion and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Douglas is a Visiting Professor and Senior Visiting Fellow of Melbourne Law School of the University of Melbourne, a Visiting Professorial Fellow of the Faculty of Law of UNSW Sydney, a non-executive director of NASDAQ and Euronext listed biotechnology firm Aptorum Group, an Advisory Board Member of the Global Impact FinTech (GIFT) Forum, Policy 4.0 and of the Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE), and co-founder and an executive board member of the Asia Pacific Structured Finance Association. Douglas has published eighteen books and more than 200 articles, chapters and reports on international financial law and regulation, including most recently Reconceptualising Global Finance and its Regulation (Cambridge 2016) (with Ross Buckley and Emilios Avgouleas) and The RegTech Book (Wiley 2019 (Janos Barberis and Ross Buckley). His recent papers are available on SSRN at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=524849 , where he is among the top 50 authors in the world and among the top 15 authors in the area of law by total downloads. Douglas led the development of Introduction to FinTech – launched with edX in May 2018 and now with over 100,000 learners spanning almost every country in the world – and the foundation of the edx-HKU Online Professional Certificate in FinTech. In addition, he has served as a consultant with, among others, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UN, APEC, Alliance for Financial Inclusion, and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has lectured, co-organised conferences and seminars and been involved with financial sector reform projects around the world. Douglas has been a visiting professor or fellow at Duke, Harvard, the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, IDC Herzliya, McGill, Melbourne, National University of Singapore, University of New South Wales, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Zurich, among others.

Erin Trudeau

senior director of technology services

Bank of Canada

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Jyry Hokkanen

Head of Statistics

Sveriges Riksbank

Jyry Hokkanen is the Head of Statistics at Sveriges Riksbank. He has held that position since 2008 and has worked in different positions at the Monetary Policy Department, including forecasting, since joining the Riksbank in 2000. The Statistics Division is responsible for general data management issues at the central bank, Swedish financial statistics including the Balance of Payments and the Riksbank Company Survey. He also represents the Riksbank on various international committees at the ECB and BIS. Prior to joining the Riksbank he worked for the Swedish Ministry of Finance with forecasting and as an expert on Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic issues. He has also a PhD in macroeconomics from Uppsala University, Sweden. 

 

Simonas Krėpšta

board member

Bank of Lithuania

Simonas is currently serving as the Member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania. For the last couple of years, he chaired the Economic and Social Policy Group of the presidential office, which coordinates economic, financial, innovation, health and social policy issues. As the Member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania he is in charge of the field of supervision which also coincides with his main professional interests.

Aniko Szombati

Chief digital officer

Central Bank of Hungary

Ms. Anikó Szombati is Chief Digital Officer, executive director responsible for digitalization and FinTech development at MNB, the central bank of Hungary. Her main responsibility is to promote digital transformation in the financial sector as well as within the central bank, including the implementation of cutting edge technologies and research on CBDC. MNB aims at increasing the competitiveness and efficiency of the financial sector via developing regulatory concepts on how to safely embrace new innovations brought about by technological developments. She is member of the Financial Stability Council. Before joining the central bank in 2001 she was market risk manager at different commercial banks. She holds an MSC in Finance from Corvinus University Budapest and an EFFAS diploma.