Thomas Vles

Thomas is a fintech entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building ventures, scaling teams, and driving innovation. After founding and exiting multiple startups, including the internationally recognized Poopy Cat, he shifted his focus to financial services. In 2021, he became CEO of Tellow, a stalled Rabobank spin-off, which he transformed into a high-growth fintech […]
Engin Asolar

Engin Asolar is Lead Architect at Nexent Bank, where he drives digital transformation across Europe through the seamless integration of mobile and online banking platforms. With deep expertise in Agile methodologies, Engin has successfully led PSD2 and AML compliance projects, while innovating in core banking infrastructure using Azure Cloud, React, and Spring Boot. His work […]
Igor Mikhalev

Igor Mikhalev is a recognized Emerging Technologies and Innovation Strategy leader experienced in world-class startup, academic, corporate, and consulting environments. His focus is on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business performance improvement through the development of Emerging Tech-enabled state-of-the-art Business Strategies and Digital Ecosystems. Igor is consulting some of the world’s leading institutions on […]
Alisa Golovunina

Alisa Golovunina is a Product Owner at New10, the digital lending platform of ABN AMRO Bank. At New10, she leads the automation of the SME onboarding journey, focusing on AI-powered solutions that simplify customer journey, automate risk checks, and streamline document handling — making the lending process faster, smarter, and more efficient. With a strong […]
Slava Kostin

Making Bank’s Platform Strategy Work Beyond the Hype. Turning Super Apps, APIs and AI into Real Business Results”. @Inna Kosinets Let’s start creating the content for the Banking 50 newsletter. We should warm up readers before the conference on a monthly basis. Site: https://wislacode.com/ Slava Kostin is the CEO of WislaCode, a specialised fintech and banking software development […]
Alisa Varaksina

Alisa Varaksina is a Product Developer at New10, the digital lending platform of ABN AMRO Bank. In her role, she leads the development and definition of New10’s product proposition, ensuring the platform remains aligned with market trends, emerging technologies, and the evolving needs of modern businesses. With a background in fintech and traditional banking, Alisa […]
Piotr Szulc

Piotr brings over a decade of business, technical and consulting experience in digital transformation programs for fintech, banking, payments and ecommerce industries. His hands-on experience ranges from strategy and consulting through cloud-based implementations, leading complex digital programs to accelerate clients’ business growth. He successfully completed engagements for clients in Europe, USA, Australia and Middle East. […]
Tamás Erni

Tamás joined Loxon in 2001 following a successful career in banking and macroeconomic modelling. Drawing on his broad experience, he was entrusted with establishing the company’s business consulting team and leading numerous projects aimed at enhancing the IT support of lending and risk management processes at various financial institutions. These efforts included managing the implementation […]
Joris Dekker

Joris Dekker represents ABN AMRO on all Digital Euro related matters and is chair of the Dutch Banking Association CBDC expert group. He has positioned ABN AMRO to actively seek collaboration to ensure digital money will bring innovation in a trustworthy manner. Therefore he is co-author of several papers and co-creator of the SPARC project […]
Jens Verboven

Jens Verboven is a recognised expert in data-driven risk management, fraud prevention and compliance. With more than a decade at GraydonCreditsafe, he advises banks, insurers and other financial institutions on strengthening fraud detection, KYC/AML processes and organisational resilience. As former Head of Fraud, Jens helped shape predictive fraud models and cross-industry intelligence networks, working closely […]