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Susanne Chishti

Susanne Chishti is the CEO of FINTECH Circle, Europe’s 1st Angel Network focused on FinTech investments, founder of London FINTECH Tours, and Chairman of FINTECH Circle Innovate. Selected as one of the 100 leading Women in FinTech and top 15 FinTech UK Twitter influencers, she was recognized in the European Digital Financial Services ‘Power 50’ 2015, an independent ranking of the most influential people in digital financial services in Europe.

Susanne is a senior capital markets manager, entrepreneur, and investor with strong FinTech expertise. She is a mentor, judge, and coach at FinTech events such as SWIFT Innotribe, Barclays TechStars Accelerator, Cambridge Judge Business School, and Startupbootcamp FinTech Accelerators. She has more than 14 years’ experience across Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Morgan Stanley, and Accenture in London and Hong Kong. Selected among top UK FinTech Influencers by City A.M. Susanne is also the author of FinTech articles and an international keynote speaker at FinTech conferences. She runs one of the leading online FinTech communities of FinTech entrepreneurs, investors, senior management from established financial and tech firms, and thought leaders – FINTECH Circle’s LinkedIn Group with more than 10,000 members worldwide.

You can follow Susanne on Twitter via her account @SusanneChishti.

About FINTECH Circle

Founded by Susanne Chishti, FINTECH Circle is an international brand linking the FinTech ecosystem of investors, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and influencers who all are enthusiastic about the growing FinTech sector globally. In addition to accessing top FinTech investment opportunities via the Angel Network, members also enjoy knowledge sharing amongst peers, access to board and non-exec positions in FinTech companies, and the opportunity to attend exclusive FinTech and angel investment educational seminars (www.fintechcircle.com). In addition, London FINTECH Tours (www.fintechtours.com) provide non-UK FinTech entrepreneurs with the opportunity to visit London to leverage London’s FinTech ecosystem of investors and clients to help them grow their business. FINTECH Circle Innovate (www.fintechcircleinnovate.com) was set up in response to demand from growing numbers of banks and large institutions who needed help to close the gap between corporate strategy and sustainable innovation in FinTech. We guide them through the global FinTech landscape and are able to source the best targets for partnership, incubation, investment and acquisition purposes. You can follow FINTECH Circle on Twitter via @FINTECHCircle and @FINTECHTours, and FINTECH Circle Innovate via @FTCInnovate.

Janos Barberis

Janos Barberis is a Millennial in FinTech, recognized as a top-35 global FinTech leader. His expertise is focused on the new regulatory considerations raised by the development of FinTech. With a passion to drive change, he founded FinTech HK, a thought leadership platform, and the SuperCharger – a FinTech Accelerator that strategically leverages Hong Kong as a gateway to Asia.

In parallel, he sits on the advisory board of the World Economic Forum’s FinTech Committee and is a PhD Candidate at Hong Kong University Law School. Janos regularly delivers Keynote speeches and has been featured in Forbes, The Financial Times and Business Insider, among others. He is also the Co-Founder and Editor of The FinTech Book.

Previously, Janos was the first hire at a prospective UK challenger bank, Lintel, helping it to secure a banking license from the PRA and FCA. This role followed a specialist interest, developed over 7 years, in financial systems and their stability. Notably, in 2012 Janos proposed to reform the Chinese shadow banking sector by developing P2P lending channels. He also introduced a framework of developingreal-time and dynamic regulatory supervision models for financial networks, paving the way towards what is now regarded as RegTech.

Janos holds an LLM in Corporate and Financial Law (HKU) as well as a BSc in Economics & Finance and an LLB in Law (UK). He has been awarded a Research Postgraduate Scholarship from Hong Kong University Law School. He co-authored the academic paper, “The Evolution of FinTech” which ranked within the Top 10 of SSRN globally.

You can follow Janos on Twitter via his account @JNBarberis

About FinTech HK

Founded by Janos Barberis in July 2014, FinTech HK is a thought leadership platform that has the objective of catalysing Hong Kong’s position as a world-leading FinTech Hub. FinTech HK produced Hong Kong’s first FinTech Report: “The Rise of FinTech: Getting Hong Kong to Lead the Digital Financial Transition in APAC.”* Since then, the platform has hosted and supported a number of local and international FinTech events. FinTech HK is a main supporting organization of the SuperCharger, Hong Kong’s first home-grown FinTech accelerator dedicated to both early- and late-stage companies that are scaling within Asia.