Leadership (2024)

Experienced network leader and analyst in financial services and IT.
Focus on strategy, innovation and development with strong combination of innovation theory and practice including an industrial PhD in collaborative innovation. Practised event moderator with large Danish and International network in the Fintech Area
Background in economics (master in economics and e-mba) and experience in financial services, digitization and IT.

Anthony is CEO and Founder of Open Banking Delivery, a consultancy dedicated to the development and growth of Open ecosystems. A senior manager with 20 years experience, he worked in the UK’s OBIE for 2.5 years supporting all participants – TPPs getting their services to market and ASPSPs obtaining PSD2 compliance.
Currently –

• Advisor to Chicago Associates, OB Brasil (equivalent to OBIE) providing practical expertise, strategic guidance. Created the ‘mentorship’ programme.
• Work with Inter American Development Bank (IDB) to create Phase 3 (credit) API designs and a Data Dictionary for OB Mexico.
• Leader, research projects into Financial Inclusion, Sustainability & Green Finance.
• Designer, ‘agile’ method for through-lifecycle ecosystem delivery.

Etienne Yuan is a digital, innovation, and product development expert. He currently applies capital and experience; gained as a data scientist, marketer, manager of app stores, and creator of Open API-based business models; to the realm of Open Banking, as a partner of investment and innovation advisory firm: theninetynine.com.

Martin Koderisch is a Principal in the London office of consulting firm Edgar, Dunn & Company. He has 20 years of experience as adviser and operator within financial technology industry with a focus on payments. He specialises in accelerating digital transformation of client businesses through industry expertise, data analytics, and fintech enablement. His approach seeks to bridge the gap between strategy and execution with hands-on delivery of value creation initiatives to achieve growth, control or operational efficiency outcomes. He previously held senior leadership roles within industry at Mastercard and Citibank covering digital product innovation, operations, and commercial partnership development. He also hosts and produces the popular podcast ‘Leaders in Payments and Fintech’ podcast available on major podcast platforms.”

Independent Industry Expert in Payments and the Digital Future of Money, Co-Editor of The PAYTECH Book, top Payments Lawyer and voted No. 1 in Payments Power 10 at #PayExpoWhat does he do?
He solves the problem of moving payments firms into the new era of money. Traditional financial services businesses risk getting left behind as Generation Z leapfrogs the banks, opting instead for big techs, challengers, and social commerce propositions. Ignoring blockchain technology and the widening knowledge gap between the financial services and digital sectors puts businesses at risk of falling behind their competitors, compromising their competitive edge, and ultimately becoming redundant.

I move finance towards digital age: Platform scale, Beyond banking, API, chatbots, Payments..
With great understanding of both banking business and latest technologies, I provide ideas and realise new activities, projects and products for financial companies.

Steve Pannifer is Managing Director at Consult Hyperion, who are specialists in digital identity and digital money. At Consult Hyperion, Steve has worked with card schemes, banks, mobile operators and others developing innovative products and services exploiting new technology. Steve is a well known expert in digital identity having worked on numerous digital identity initiatives around the world.