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Tracy A. Basinger

Tracy served as the head of bank supervision from 2017 to 2021, leading a 350- person team that conducts prudential […]

Douglas Arner

Douglas W. Arner is the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, RGC Senior Fellow in Digital Finance and Sustainable Development and […]

Simone di Castri

I am a frontier digital economy and financial market leader, passionate about evidence-based policymaking, data that show insights and tell […]

Hubert Danso

Mr Hubert Danso, CEO and Chairman: Africa investor (Ai), Chairman: AiSWPFF, Chairman, African Union Continental Business Network (CBN), African Green […]

Lesly Goh

Lesly Goh (LinkedIn Profile), transitioned to World Bank Senior Technology Advisor after serving as the  Chief Technology Officer role. She […]

Paula Hunter

Paula Hunter is the Executive Director for the Mojaloop Foundation. Paula manages the business affairs of the Mojaloop Foundation with […]

Mary Ellen Iskenderian

Mary Ellen Iskenderian is President and CEO of Women’s World Banking, the global  nonprofit devoted to giving more low-income women […]

Sopnendu Mohanty

Sopnendu Mohanty is the Chief Fintech Officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Hejoined MAS in August 2015 and […]

Laura Clavijo Munoz

Laura Clavijo is the Head of Innovation at Colombia’s Financial Superintendency and leader of an encompassing initiative to foster technological […]

Anju Patwardhan

Anju Patwardhan is Managing Partner at CreditEase Fintech VC Fund. Prior to this, Anju worked in banking for over two […]

Daniel M. Schydlowsky

Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University and […]

Bob Trojan

Mr. Trojan is ‘Global Advisor to the Digital Economy’ and is an international disruptive technology and commercial/SME/consumer lending expert, thought […]

Anna Wallace

Anna is the Senior Program Officer for Regulatory and Consumer Protection Technologies at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her […]

Deborah Young

Deborah Young is the founding CEO of The RegTech Association, a global non-profit industry member body focussed on accelerating adoption […]

John Beccia

John provides a wide range of regulatory and compliance solutions for financial services, fintech and cryptocurrency firms.  He was most […]

Richard Berner

Richard Berner is Clinical Professor of Management Practice in the Department of Finance, and, with Professor Robert Engle, is Co-Director […]

Christopher Brummer

Chris Brummer is a Georgetown law professor, lecturer, and author. He has earned an international reputation as a premier thought […]

Jerry Buckley

Described by Chambers as “a recognized dean of the consumer finance bar,” Jerry Buckley has, over a 40 year career, […]

Agnes Bundy Scanlan

Agnes Bundy Scanlan, Esq., is the President of The Cambridge Group LLC, a strategy and risk management advisory firm. The […]

Andrew Burt

Andrew Burt, an internationally recognized expert on the intersection between data privacy, security and artificial intelligence, is Chief Legal Officer […]

Fabrice E. Coles

Fabrice Coles is a Senior Manager, Global Public Policy, at PayPal. He is an attorney and a former senior Capitol […]

Jotaka Eaddy

Jotaka L. Eaddy is the founder and CEO of Full Circle Strategies, LLC – a social impact consulting firm committed […]

Judith Erwin

Judith Erwin is the former CEO of Grasshopper Bank, the first digital commercial bank in the United States. Judith was […]

Amy Friend

Amy has over 25 years of experience shaping banking and consumer financial protection law and regulation.  Amy was Senior Deputy […]

Chris Giancarlo

Christopher Giancarlo is Senior Counsel to the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher and the former Chairman of the U.S. […]

Daniel Gorfine

Daniel Gorfine is an experienced regulatory, public policy, strategic communications, and business executive, and the founder of Gattaca Horizons LLC, […]

Carl Hoffman

Lifetime entrepreneur with experience in text analytics, cyber forensics, and cross-border ventures. Co-founder of Basis Technology and investor in Customer […]

Yvette Hollingsworth Clark

Yvette is Executive Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at State Street.  Yvette began her career with the Federal Reserve […]

Howell Jackson

Howell Jackson is the James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His research interests include financial […]

Wendy Jephson

Wendy Jephson is Co-Founder of LetsThink where we are Making Decisions Better with People, Data & Technology. Former Head of […]

Dan Kimerling

Dan Kimerling started Deciens because of the realization that there was (and, other than Deciens, is) no Venture fund focused […]

Josh Reich

Josh has spent 20 years moving from the architecture of the internet to the architecture of money, and how people […]

Kareem Saleh

Kareem Saleh is the founder and CEO of FairPlay, the world’s first Fairness-as-a-Service company. Financial Institutions use FairPlay’s APIs to […]

Arjan Schutte

Arjan Schütte is the founder and a managing partner of Core Innovation Capital, a mission-driven venture capital fund investing in […]

David Schwartz

David Schwartz is Chief Technology Officer at Ripple. David is one of the original architects of the XRP Ledger. Prior […]

Gary Shiffman

Gary M. Shiffman is an applied micro-economist and business executive working to combat organized violence, corruption, and coercion. He received […]

David Silberman

David Silberman has been involved in consumer finance issues from a wide range of perspectives for over three decades.  As […]

Laura Spiekerman

Laura Spiekerman is a cofounder and CRO at Alloy. Alloy’s API enables financial services companies to better manage their digital […]

Minerva Tantoco

Experienced Executive and Advisor managing technology risk as a transformational Chief Technology Officer (CTO), First-ever CTO of City of New […]

Diana Taylor

Ms. Taylor started her career as an investment banker in New York, where she worked from 1980 through 1996. She then joined Governor George Pataki’s administration, where she worked in several capacities in the environmental, energy, housing and banking fields. In 2003, she was appointed Banking Superintendent for the State of New York, which appointment she held for four years. In 2007, she moved into Private Equity, where she was involved in investments in financial institutions globally and then as an advisor on consumer businesses.

Ms. Taylor now sits on the boards of two public companies, Citigroup and Brookfield Asset Management, chairs three not‐for‐profit boards, Accion, Hot Bread Kitchen and the New York City Ballet Theater, is co‐chair of the board of overseers at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia and is a board member of the Cold Spring Harbor Lab, and Ideas42. She is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College, and the Mayo Clinic, among others. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York City.

Ms. Taylor earned her AB from Dartmouth College, her MBA from the Columbia School of Business, and her MPH from the Mailman School at Columbia.

Matt Van Buskirk

Matt Van Buskirk is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Hummingbird Regtech. Hummingbird gives superpowers to the people fighting financial crime by […]

Raul Vazquez

Raul Vazquez is the CEO of Oportun, a high-growth, mission-driven Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and provider of inclusive, affordable […]

Colin Walsh

Colin Walsh is the CEO and co-founder of Varo Money, which is on track to become the first mobile-centric national […]

Thomas J. Curry

Thomas J. Curry is a former partner in Nutter’s Corporate and Transactions Department and former co-leader of the firm’s Banking […]

Shamir Karkal

A true FinTech pioneer, Shamir Karkal played a crucial part in building the infrastructure that would pave the way for […]

Kabir Kumar

Kabir backs early-stage entrepreneurs who want to fundamentally transform the financial sector and improve people’s economic outlook. At Flourish, he […]

Cantwell F. Muckenfuss III

Cantwell F. Muckenfuss III is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a partner in the […]

Jo Ann Barefoot

Jo Ann Barefoot is CEO & Co-founder of the Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR), host of the global podcast show Barefoot Innovation, and Senior Fellow Emerita at the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Business & Government. She has been Deputy Comptroller of the Currency, partner at KPMG, Co-Chairman of Treliant Risk Advisors, and a staff member at the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. She serves on the boards of Oportun and FinRegLab, and on advisory bodies for FINRA, the Milken Institute, and the California Blockchain Working Group. She formerly served on the board of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. She is Co-founder of Hummingbird RegTech.

In 2021, Jo Ann was named Fintech Woman of the Year by Finovate and selected to the Forbes list of 50 Over 50. She is also in the Fintech Hall of Fame. She previously served on the CFPB’s Consumer Advisory Board and chaired the board of the Financial Health Network. She has published nearly 200 articles and speaks each year to thousands of people throughout the world.

Nick Cook

Nick Cook is Chief Innovation Officer at AIR.  Based in London, he was previously the Director of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Innovation Division, including the agency’s RegTech and TechSprint initiatives, its data and analytics strategy, machine learning endeavours, and the “Innovate” program (encompassing the Regulatory Sandbox, innovation and digital policy, and industry-facing direct support services). At AIR, Nick heads the TechSprint program and the nascent AIR Fair Finance Accelerator, working with partners and the innovation ecosystem to define its scope …

Kisha Perkins

Kisha Perkins joined the Alliance for Innovation Regulation (AIR) as the Chief Program Officer responsible for program strategy, project design and delivery, planning, staffing, resource management, and quality control of all programs. Prior to joining AIR, Kisha held several leadership roles during a 12-year stint in consulting, supporting large financial institutions in solving complex, multi-faceted consumer compliance challenges. Kisha led project execution and delivery teams that advanced consumer remediation initiatives, consent order deliverables and technology-focused solutions.