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Serial fintech entrepreneur and angel investor. Fernando founded (2014) and sold (2018) Aplazame, Spain’s leading BNPL to Wizink bank. Currently CEO and cofounder of Devengo, an API for instant payments orchestration. As angel investor, Fernando has made +30 investments and is currently Board member of Postpay, a leading BNPL in the mena region and of Inespay, Spain’s leading PISP....

More than 20 years of experience in IT for Financial services, I always like to work out of my comfort zone assuming new challenges and learning new ways of doing. As responsible of the technological strategies in my company, I know how important is to ensure the proper technical decisions without forgetting the relevance of creating the adequate processes framework to support each specific situation. As leader,...

Markus Müller is Global Head of the Chief Investment Office of the Private Bank, Deutsche Bank AG. In June 2022 he took over the role of Chief Investment Officer ESG in addition to his current function. Markus is a member of Deutsche Banks Group Sustainability Council. Markus began his career at Deutsche Bank in DB Research as executive assistant to the chief economist. During his studies...

Transforming the way people and businesses interact with financial services. All my professional career has pivoted around the introduction to market of high-tech products and services for the financial sector. The evolution from technical roles to management, through project management and then sales and marketing, has allowed me to remain rooted in the basic foundations of the business. I've had the opportunity to collaborate and work with...

As of September 1, 2022, Camilla was appointed Secretary General of the Nordic Payments Council (NPC), as main objective is to contribute to harmonised payments in the Nordics. With 30 years of banking experience, most of which has been focused on payments and clearing and settlement mechanisms, Camilla has most recently been deeply involved in the P27 project and took part in designing the new...

Diederik Bruggink works at the European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG) and at the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute where he is responsible for all payments topics worldwide. 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...

Joris Hensen is responsible for the Deutsche Bank API Program, which he co-founded in 2015. The Developer Portal of Deutsche Bank gives partners quick and easy access to more than 40 API products, enabling them to connect personalized apps and services and thus open up new areas of value creation. Joris Hensen sees himself as an intrapreneur and is dedicated to exploring how Open Banking and...

Wijnand Machielse is European Markets Director at SRC Security Research & Consulting and is an editor and moderator of Berlin Group openFinance. He has more than 25 years of experience and expertise in conception and implementation of complex transaction systems, in interbank (card) processing, clearing systems and scheme services, and in retail-banking IT standardisation at a European and international level. He holds a master‘s degree...

Successfully promoted use of electronic signatures and electronic business processes throughout Europe. Adviser and technical expert to European Commission for instituting Regulation 910/2014 (#eIDAS) on electronic identity assurance and the design and roll-out of European, cross-nation e-procurement platforms and operations. Implemented within the business model and the technical structure of CAs the European Telecommunications and Standards Institute (ETSI) standards for authentication, encryption, signing, time stamping,...

Pilar Fragalà has more than 20 years of experience as an educator, researcher, and consultant in the banking field. She has obtained over the years vast experience in the financial sector, with a profound knowledge of traditional and innovative business models in the area of Transaction Banking. Born in Rome in 1976, she graduated in Economics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" with a research...