The FinTech Center

What Disruptive FinTech Trends Are Transforming Jobs: What Job Applicants and Curriculum Developers Need to Know
2021-04-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Anoop Nannra is the Global Blockchain Segment Leader in AWS’ Partner Organization. Anoop is focused on identifying disruptive technologies and accelerating their adoption through business incubation via co-development, co-innovation, and partnerships. Anoop has a proven track record of leadership in corporations and start-ups, delivering world-class innovations in security, optics, media and entertainment, communications, IoT, and blockchain. As AWS’s Global Blockchain Segment Leader, Anoop is responsible for strategy and execution of growing the blockchain partner business with AWS’ global and regional partners. Anoop is also the Chair and Co-Founder of the Open Sustainability Collaborative, a people focused non-profit enabling innovators in underserved communities to build solutions to help corporates address their sustainability development goals. Previously, Anoop was Cisco’s Global Blockchain Leader and participated in numerous enterprise blockchain industry initiatives, including serving as the Chair and Executive Board Member of the Trusted IoT Alliance and represented Cisco as an Executive Committee Member of the Chamber of Digital Commerce. Anoop is always at the bleeding edge of technology innovations, and looking at ways to transition emerging technology to mainstream use.

Why is Assets Tokenization Disrupting Financial Markets?
2021-04-13 12:00 - 13:00
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Catherine Coley is the CEO of Binance.US, a digital asset marketplace built for easy and secure access to buy, trade, and stake digital assets in America. As a seasoned fintech veteran, Coley comes to Binance.US with combined experience at the crossroads of global capital and cryptocurrency markets. She brings over five years of sales & trading experience from Morgan Stanley Foreign Exchange in Hong Kong and London, combined with her treasury management and cross-border payments experience, growing fast-paced global companies like Silicon Valley Bank and Ripple.
Coley holds a BSBA in Global Business and a minor in Asian studies from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. She was a GLOBE scholar, earning her business degree internationally with selected students from Copenhagen Business School and Chinese University of Hong Kong– and was recently named one of Fortune’s Top 40 under 40.

FinTech’s Role in Building Generational Wealth in the Black Community
2021-04-08 12:00 - 13:00
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Cuy Sheffield is the Head of Crypto at Visa, leading the global crypto product team within the fintech product organization. Cuy is a fellow at the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute, a co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cryptocurrencies and a member of the advisory group for the Digital Dollar Project. Before Visa, Cuy worked on business development and partnerships for TrialPay, a fintech startup that Visa acquired in 2015.
With a career that covers both media and technology, Donald Hawkins applies a diverse mixture of skills to his role as Founder & Chief Executive Officer of his affinity neobank, First Boulevard. As a serial entrepreneur, Donald has a goal of creating companies that truly help the masses. With First Boulevard, Donald is empowering members to take control of their money while building positive financial behaviors.

The Future of Central Bank Digital Currency: A Global Perspective
2021-04-06 12:00 - 13:00
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Dr. Oriol Caudevilla works as a Management Consultant at AirHelp, Advisor for a Hong Kong-based FinTech company, ixFintech, Strategic Advisor at a Hong Kong-based WealthTech company, ETFCool, Strategic Advisor at Alpha Bright Asset Management (Hong Kong) Strategic Advisor at ScallopX, Scientific Advisor at the Israeli Blockchain Association, Mentor at R3 (Singapore), Mentor at Cyberport (Hong Kong), FinTech Mentor at F10 Incubator & Accelerator (Singapore), Blockchain Mentor at Tribe (Singapore) and also FinTech Mentor at Rise by Barclays (London and Mumbai). Oriol is member of the Blockchain, Digital Banking and Greater Bay Area Committees at the Fintech Association of Hong Kong (FTAHK), as well as the Singapore Fintech Association (SFA). He is Fellow at the Digital Euro Association (D€A) and at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), as well as Honorary Fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law -AIIFL- at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Furthermore, he publishes articles in several media, including China Daily (both the Global and Hong Kong Edition) and Macau Business. He has given talks and seminars on the Chinese Financial System, Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Digital Yuan in several universities in the US, Canada, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in international conferences, like the recent Israel/UAE Fintech Week, the Future of Fintech Saudi Arabia event and the Greater Bay Area Blockchain Week.
Dr. Ousmène Jacques Mandeng is a Senior Advisor and Lead of Economic and Financial Strategy with Accenture’s Blockchain and Multiparty Systems. He co-leads Accenture’s campaign globally for the dissemination of central bank digital currencies and thought leadership on the wider implication of the digital transformation in payments. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Member of the Bretton Woods Committee, Fellow of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, and Member of Robert Triffin International and writes a blog at www.economicsadvisory.com. He holds a Ph.D. from the LSE and is fluent in German, English, French, and Spanish.
