Speakers

Susanne Chishti, Chair at FINTECH Circle and NED at Crown Agents Bank.

Susanne Chishti is the award-winning Founder & Chair of FINTECH Circle and a FTSE Board Member. As Investor and Editor of The FINTECH Book Series she lives with her family in London and is a Non-Executive Director of Crown Agents Bank, a FTSE listed wholesale bank focused on international payments and FX and an Advisory Board Member of Elevator Ventures, the VC fund of Raiffeisen Bank International, a leading European Banking Group with 45,000 employees, 19 million customers and EUR 200 billion in total assets. At CAB Payments PLC she is also the Chair of the ESG Board Sub-Committee and Member of the Nomination and Risk Board Committees.

Susanne's awards include the “Top 100 Women in Fintech 2024”, “Top 10 global fintech influencers in 2022” (Evening Standard), “Top 5 ESG Influencers Globally” (Refinitiv) and the Fintech Champion of the Year in 2019 (Women in Finance Awards).

She has also been a fintech TV Commentator on ITN and CNBC and a guest lecturer on financial technology at the University of Cambridge and Warwick Business School. After completing her MBA at the University of Business Administration (WU Wien) in Vienna, Austria, she started her career working for a fintech company (before the term “fintech” was being invented) in the Silicon Valley 25 years ago. She then worked more than 15 years' across Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Morgan Stanley and Accenture in London and Hong Kong.

Susanne is an award-winning Entrepreneur and Investor with strong FINTECH expertise. She is a Judge and Coach at global FINTECH events and competitions and a conference keynote speaker. Susanne leads a global community of more than 260,000+ fintech entrepreneurs, investors, financial services professionals globally (www.fintechcircle.com).
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