FTT Fintech Festival 2026 - Rockstar Speakers

Rockstar speakers

More speakers are being confirmed weekly. Stay tuned for the latest updates

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Jambu Palaniappan

CEO

Checktrade.com

Ari Cohen

Chief Data and AI Officer

Macquarie Group

Sue Hayes

CEO

The Nottingham Building Society

Kanishka Narayan

Member of Parliament

UK Parliament

Sailesh Panchal

Chief Technology Officer & Director of Payments

TSB Bank

Mitch Trehan

Chief Compliance Officer

Allica Bank

Pat O'Donnell

Director of Pay - Commercial

Phorest

David Twigg

Financial Services MD

Frasers

Olga Gunchenkova

Director of Payments

Flutter International

Edgars Kokins

Managing Director

Bolt

Kevin Cassar

Chief Data & AI Officer (CDAO)

TalkTalk

Thiago Gaiao

Managing Director / General Manager - UK & Ireland

SharkNinja

Richard Talbot

MD, Head of NWG Cash Capabilities, Payments Data & AI

NatWest

Philipp von Lossau

CFO

Plum

David Rice

Chief AI Officer

HSBC

Hayley Viner

Director of Payments

Zopa Bank

Ramy Erfan

Vice President, Business & Technology Enablement

Citi

Joshua Fabian-Miller

MD Credit

Currys

Ravneet Shah

Chief Technology Officer

Allica Bank

Ingrid Sierra

CMO

Zego

Chris Waring

Chief Executive Officer

thisbank

Karolina Maciulevičiūtė

MLRO Lithuania, Board of Directors UK

Overchain

Andy Patton

CEO

Lycamoney

Simon Taylor

CEO & Chair of BSA

Melton Building Society

Nikolay Donets

Group Head of ML Engineering

Revolut

Colin Field

CEO

Saffron Building Society

Ilke Carkci Toptas

Regional Director, Northern EU

Meta

Owen Roberts

CEO

Unify Credit Union

Walid Hassouna

CEO

valU

Simon Broadley

CEO

Furness Building Society

Vishala Sri-Pathma

Journalist & Presenter

BBC

Gareth Griffiths

CEO

Ecology Building Society

Andrew Morris

CEO

Cirencester Friendly Society

Dave Starling

Head of Future Products Technology

NatWest

Daniel Gold

CEO

Stratiphy

Ambar Sinha

Head of Fraud - Retail & FinCrime Support

Revolut

Natalie Brock

VP People

Plum

Himanshu Joshi

Managing Director, Head, Strategic Partnerships, Transaction Banking

Lloyds Banking Group

Ankit Sachdeva

Global Lead, Vendor Financing

Delivery Hero

Xiang Fan

Programme Director

NatWest

Ioannis Iliadis

Senior Product Manager Fintech

Efood

James Brown

CEO

Leeds Credit Union

Iain Kirkpatrick

CEO

Market Harborough Building Society

Sally Gaudion

Chief Customer Officer

The Nottingham Building Society

Michael Conville

Chief Customer Officer

Darlington Building Society

Declan Halton-Woodward

Chief Transformation Officer

thisbank

Vijay Mitra

Generative AI & Responsible AI Risk Lead

Nationwide Building Society

Cristina Caffarra

Chairperson

EuroStack Initiative Foundation

Kate Pender

Chief Executive Officer

Fair4All Finance

Russ Thornton

Chief Technology Officer

The Nottingham Building Society

Greg Sachrajda

Head of Department - Retail Banking

Financial Conduct Authority

Gurminder Singh Bhagrath

CEO

London Capital Credit Union

Emma Norledge

Deputy CEO

Wave Community Bank

Lesley Vernon

Chief Engagement Officer

Market Harborough Building Society

Pedro Batista

CEO

Payhawk

John Haslam

Chief Strategy Officer

Penny Post Credit Union

Mikko Riikkinen

Head of Financial Services

Wolt

Lois Ireson

CMO

Brit Insurance

Ben Appleby

Product Owner / Business Design Lead - Cloud Onboarding

Nationwide Building Society

Matthew Bament

Head of Compliance and Data Protection Officer

Foresters Financial

Tina Hughes

Director of Savings & Digital Channels

Yorkshire Building Society

Jo Mclean

Chief People & Marketing Officer

Teachers Building Society

Ben West

Head of Business Development

London Mutual Credit Union

Chris Higham

Director, Payments Product Owner

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking

Kai Hunter

COO

Lovey

Stephanie Gillies

Senior Marketing Director, UK

Trustpilot

Khalil Bawar

Head of Innovation Design

PostFinance

Jason Sheehy

Head of Identity

Post Office UK

Ashtha Bajaj

Data and AI Lead

Bank of Ireland

David Okoronkwo

Senior, Compliance & Risk

Task Tabbit

Manish Kumar

Head of payments acceptance

Starling Bank

Aleksandar Todorovic

Managing Director, Generative AI Strategy

NatWest

Cicely Dudley

Senior Manager, Payments Industry and Regulation

Lloyds Banking Group

Aritra Chakravarty

Head of Agentic AI

Lloyds Banking Group

Parag Shah

Head of Operations

Just Eat Takeaway.com

Will Bryant

Director of Wealth Strategy

Plum

Yenny Otero

Head of Customer Experience

Vanquis Bank

Bogdan Grigorescu

Senior Technical Lead, AI Engineering & Platforms

Direct Line Group

Damian Glover

Co-chair of Trusted AI Agents Working Group

Decentralized Identity Foundation

Faiyaz Amin

Sector Innovation Lead

National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC)

Max Hayden

Managing Director ‑ Intermediarie

Finova

Savita Nandan

Strategic Portfolio Manager Agentic AI & GenAI Domain Strategy

Rabobank

Astitva Karunesh

Data Science and AI Business Lead

Lloyds Banking Group

Claire Askham

Head of Mortgage Sales

Buckinghamshire Building Society

Aisling Twomey

Lead Business Banking & Financial Crime

Monzo Bank

Rob Oliver

Director of Distribution

Dudley Building Society

Roy Corneleus

Lead Zero-Trust & CIAM Architect

Vodafone

Lawrence Chan

Head of Savings

Nottingham Building Society

Ekaterina Polishchuk

Global Product Manager - AI

Nissan

Charlotte Grimshaw

Head of Intermediaries

Suffolk Building Society

Francesco Di Costanzo

CEO

Jaja Finance

Ashley Bostel

Financial Crime Analytics Strategy Lead

NatWest

Colin Whitmore

Financial Crime Strategy & Controls

Formerly NatWest

Daria Odale

Senior Product Manager, Customer Platforms

Spotify

Luke Sanders

Head of Financial Operations

Foresters Financial

Dan Berner

Founder

Zentru Solutions

Rory Tanner

Head of UK Government Affairs

Revolut

Sridhar Somaraju

Head of Transformation for Business Banking

Nationwide Building Society

Caroline Cartellieri

Non-Executive Director

Saffron Building Society

Greg Went

Head of Mortgage Product and Proposition

The Nottingham Building Society

Alex Clayden

Head of Financial Crime Risk, Customer Decisioning

Monzo Bank

Grant Ongers

Principal Security Architect

DSIT

Harsh Daftary

VP, Cloud Security

Emirates NBD

Philip O'Shaunghnessy

Head of Architecture

Metro Bank

Laura de Bella

Engineering Manager, Customer Platforms

Spotify

Laura Sneddon

Head of Sales and Distribution

Hinckley and Rugby Building Society

Matt King

Senior Portfolio Manager

Monmouthshire Building Society

Claudia Yun Zheng

AI Transformation Lead

Checkout.com

Quendoline Jansen

Senior Product Designer, Customer Platforms

Spotify

Matt Bland

CEO

All Together Money

Azy Shojaeian

Group Chief Compliance & Risk Officer & MLRO

Pockit & Monese

Lian Ryan-Hume

Head of Trust & Safety Policy, EMEA

TikTok

Grace Broadhurst

Head of Product at Economic Crime Prevention Lab

Lloyds Banking Group

Pallavi Kapale

Senior Financial Crime Officer (2LOD) - Financial Intelligence

Bank of China

Mark Murphy

Strategy Lead, Economic Crime

NatWest

Yair Samban

KYC, AML, Counter Terrorist Finance

Independent

Nafisa Feeney

Head of Legal

Paynt

Gitika Rohilla

Senior Online Payments & Chargebacks Manager

Transport for London

Richard Oliphant

Legal Expert

Independent

Chris Ticehurst

Head of Delivery - Group Protection

Legal & General

Joe Postle

Chief Product Officer

Jaja Finance

Cornel Dixon

Head of Growth

Plumery

Manos Mavrikos

SVP Business Development

FaceTec

Janine Hirt

CEO

Innovate Finance

Chris Kirk

Senior Risk & Control Manager, Platform, Data & Security

Monzo Bank

Mario Husha

CTO

Lovey

Julia Puzyrova

Chief Platform Owner

Luminor Group

Alak Sharma

Director of Risk & Compliance

Cirencester Friendly

Adam Marshall

Senior Product Propositions and Governance Manager (Money)

Skipton Building Society

Peter Davey

Independent Expert

Independent

Dave O'Malley

Director of Operational Security

Monzo

Caeryn Collins

Coordinator

The SoundPound Group

Gavin Opperman

CEO

Teachers Building Society

Shamik Banerjee

Head of Data, Analytics, AI

BAT

Alex Smith

Head of Wallets & Agentic, Everyday Banking

Lloyds Banking Group

James Hill

CEO

Flexys

Mark Inglis

Director, Financial Crime Compliance

Worldpay

Clive Bourke

President EMEA and APAC

Daon

Eric Gilmore

Head of Pre Sales EMEA & ASIA

Daon

Blerina Essen

Director & Deputy Managing Director, Finance & Operations

Norac Foods Uk

Anjali Jain

Lecturer, University of Oxford & Architect - AI & Intelligent Decisioning

Metro Bank

Aswin Peter

Senior Product Lead - Customer Experience & Product Strategy | Payments & Open Banking Innovation

British Gas

Veer Jhamtani

Senior Partnerships Manager - Financial Services

Xero

Parvaiz Dalal

Global Head Payables Finance

Citi

Scott Wilson

Founder & CEO

Covecta

Stuart Cheetham

CEO

MQube

Grant Seaton

Head of Intermediary

Cumberland Building Society

Ben Thomas

Founder & CRO

Covecta

Tom Sharp

Digital Distribution Owner

Furness Building Society

Ingrid Olmesdahl

Ai Transformation Director, EMEA

Ogilvy

Daniel Harrison

Senior Manager Digital Assets Policy & Regulation

Lloyds Banking Group

Rob Haslingden

Co-Head of Coalitions

CFIT

Hamza Behzad

Business Development Director

Finova

Daniel Lee

Head of Product

Stop Scams UK

Bruce McVicar

Head of Identity & Access

Wella Company

Oriol Aguilar Anguera

CIAM Principal

Roche

Sneyha Vadgama

Financial Crime Risk Director

Citi

Pavle Avramovic

Director of Research & Policy

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

Christin Burmeister

Head of Product B2B Payments

Otto payments

Stuart Bryce

Head of New Business

Beverley Building Society

Russell Pert

Group Director for Financial Services, Technology, Travel & Entertainment

Meta

Stephanie Giles

Senior Marketing Director, UK

Trustpilot

Donal Traynor

Group CEO

Community Finance Ireland

Tomas Stegura

Executive Director

ČSOB

John Gidla

Head of Global Regulatory Research & Analysis

Vixio Regulatory Intelligence

Steve Lockwood

Founder

FCR Compliance

Virag Filep

Head of Compliance Advisory Support

MBH Bank

Lucia Morales

NED

Leeds Credit Union

John Erik Setsaas

Principal Advisor & Founde

Setsaas Trust Advisory

Ryan Caruana

Group Chief Anti-Financial Crime Officer & MLRO

Bank of Valletta

Max Elphick

Head of Digital Identity

TechUk

Julia McColl

General Manager

ClearScore

Iain Corby

Executive Director

Age Verification Providers Association

Jan Indra

Head of Threat Intelligence

Resistant AI

Kathryn Townsend

Head of Customer Vulnerability and Accessibility

Nationwide Building Society

Phil Cole

CEO

Derbyshire Community Bank

Tamsyn Weston

CTO

Johnston Carmichael

Jon Shamah

Co-Founder

Global Trust Foundation

Laura McCracken

CEO

Blackheath Advisors

Chip Mahan

Founder & CEO

Integrated Payments Solutions

Elias David

GTM Northern Europe

ElevenLabs

Garrett Cassidy

Managing Director

Abarta

Paul Loberman

Senior Consultant

May Business Consulting

Zil Bareisis

Head of Retail Banking and Payments

Celent

Sophia Further

Fintech Research Analyst

S&P

Lucile Flamand

Independent

Jaz Saggu

NED

BHSF Group Ltd

Wasim Mushtaq

Founder

1CG

Oonagh van den Berg

CEO & Founder

Virtual Risk Solutions

Victor Tuson

Founder

Tuson Advisory

James Monaghan

Founder

MISSION

Richard Maton

Founder

Aperio Strategy

Aman Kohli

Founder / CTO

Evolv Technologies

Keith Grose

Senior Country Director

Coinbase

Debmalya Biswas

Executive Director, Distinguished Engineer & AM Tech AI CoE Head

UBS

Anurag Chitlangia

Senior Product Manager

Uber

Martin Wallraff

Strategy Director

Payments Consulting Network

Marvin Hurlston

Senior Director, Client Onboarding

OakNorth Bank

Kaushal Shukla

VP Payments

Moniepoint

Nimeesha Bhagavatula

Former Global Head of HR Change Adoption & Engagement

HSBC

Amanda Brock

CEO

OpenUK

Saira Khan

Head of Innovation and Partnerships

first direct

Danny Mclaughlin

Head of Digital Transformation

The Pensions Ombudsman

Shannon Krishna

Global Head of Compliance & UK MLRO

Incard

Darek Paleczny

Chief Risk & Compliance Officer

Worldline

Jamaria Kong

Managing Director

TowerBrook Capital

Cal Brown

Lead Cybersecurity Stroyteller

Krishna Koundinya

Co-Founder

Cyber Geek Podcast

Geraint Rogers

Market SME for Identity, Fraud and Financial Crime

Daon

Bryn Robinson-Morgan

Principal Consultant

Moresburg

Sarah Bray

Experienced MLRO and Board Adviser

Formerly StoneX Financial, Peel Hunt & FCA

Aurora Kapo

Senior AI Ambassador

HSBC

Annet Steenbergen

Advisor

WE BUILD Consortium

Shruti Kulkarni

Information Security Architect

Elexon

Peter Drake

Founder

Drake Consulting

Dan Feaheny

Founder

Feeney FinTech

Rob Jones

Senior Product Manager, Consumer Payments

Lloyds Banking Group

Helene Vigue

Identity & Data Director

GSMA

Francisco Martins

Head of Global Partnerships

Oz Forensics

Lee Norminton

Head of Fraud Policy & Industry Engagement

Santander

Christophe Olenaed

COO, Head of Client & Business Activity

Edmond de Rothschild

Kay Chopard

Executive Director

Women in Identity

James Nurse

UK AML/FinCrime Strategic Advisor

Alloy

Mario Principato

Senior Information Security Engineer

Cantor Fitzgerald

Natalia Gburzynska

DMLRO, Senior Financial Crime Compliance Manager

Revolut

Enrico Marini

Head of Generosity Intelligence

Flutter Entertainment

Francisco Mainez

Global Head of Transaction Monitoring & Investigations

Klarna

Andrea Reynolds

CEO

Swoop

Ryan Hayward

MD, Digital Assets

Barclays

Natalie Brock

VP People

Plum

Arnaud-Amaury Séverac

Co-Head of Fintech & Insurtech EMEA

BNP Paribas CIB

Callie Wang

Manager, Regulatory Sandbox & Innovation Pathways, Innovation Department

Financial Conduct Authority

Lisa Addison

Chief Revenue Officer

Independent

Lloyd Hutchinson

Chief Commercial Officer

Enfuce

Rujuta Singh

AI Transformation Delivery Lead

Scottish Power

Lucy Yang

Special Advisor

Identity Technologies

Enis Sahin

CISO

Federated Hermes

Joelle Haddad

Head of Field Operations & GTM - Europe

Teciem

Asim Khwaja

Cyber, Risk, AI & Advanced Analytics

UK Government (own views)

Saurav Mukherjee

Head of Economic Crime Risk & Control, Corporate & Commercial Banking (CCB)

Santander UK

John Holton

Founder

Work Less Ordinary

Julia McColl

General Manager

Clearscore

Anton Kornilov

Founder, Payments & Growth Strategy Advisor

Kernel Acumen Ltd

Eric Gilmore

Head of Pre-Sales Consulting

Daon

Nicolas Decouttere

CEO & Co-Founder

Hexaven

Florent Tournois

Technical Director

France Identité

Barry Smith

Director

Smith & Guinan

Edgar Baranovskis

Vice President

Barclays

Kate Bohn

Industry Consultant - Financial Services Banking and Insurance

Tungsten Automation

Mike Coley

Product Director

Equifax

Kimberley Waldron

Founder and MD

Started PR

Brendan Gilmore

Managing Director

BPG Strategy

Sovon Chatterjee

Director Payments Products

HSBC

Lucyna Janas

Head of Partnerships

Google Wallet

Dhipa Lee

Independent

Kev Smith

EMEA Principal Sales Engineer - Strategic Accounts

Silverfort

Anthony Minshull

Senior Fraud Strategy and Change Manager

Starling Bank

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