Susanne Chishti.
Founder & Chair, FINTECH Circle, Co-Editor of The FINTECH Book Series published by Wiley. Global fintech leader, investor and FTSE board member.
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 is an in-demand keynote speaker at leading finance and technology conferences globally and the Co-Editor of the bestselling The FINTECH Book, which has been translated into 10 languages and is sold across 107 countries, as well as The WEALTHTECH Book, The INSURTECH Book, The PAYTECH Book, The AI Book and The LEGALTECH Book.
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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Some of Susanne Chishti’s Accolades
Fintech Champion of the year (funding) 2019
(Women in Finance Awards)
Top 100 Women in Fintech Globally 2019
(Lattice80 and Onalytica)
SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER OF THE YEAR 2018
(Investment Week)
TOP 7 CRYPTO EXPERTS GLOBALLY 2018
(Inc Magazine)
CITY INNOVATOR — INSPIRATIONAL WOMAN IN 2016
EUROPEAN DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES ‘POWER 50’
(an independent ranking of the most influential people in digital financial services in Europe in 2015)
Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Powerlist 2015-2018
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