Rise Presents: FinTech trends 2021

2021 has been an incredible year for FinTech industry with several new business models and partnerships evolving. To celebrate the year, we have invited industry leaders for a captivating discussion on the news that made headlines in 2021 and new trends that are likely to play out in 2022. They would deliberate on a range of topics – right from BNPL to cryptos and DeFi.

Panelists:

Upasna Batra, Financial Services Consulting, Accenture India

Upasna is an IIM graduate and is currently working with Accenture Consulting and ran her own Fintech consulting in the past. She is quite active in the Fintech ecosystem in India and has often spoken at IITs, IIMs, and other Industry Forums. She serves on the Women Entrepreneurship Committee of FICCI FLO and Course Advisory committee of BSE.

Charlotte Kanagasabapathy, Global FinTech Platform Director, Barclays

Charlotte is Global FinTech Platform Director at Barclays, leading Rise's mission to bring technology, talent and trends in FinTech together to accelerate innovation for Barclays and the financial industry. Since joining Barclays in 2012 she has held a number of different roles focused on open innovation, fintech partnerships and proposition delivery. She is passionate about supporting entrepreneurs through their journey and discovering innovative solutions to challenges old and new.

Yezdi Lashkari, Founder & CEO, Flexmoney Technologies

Yezdi Lashkari is currently the Founder & CEO of Flexmoney. Flexmoney's mission is to Reinvent Consumer Credit for the Mass-Market Digital Consumer. Flexmoney is building India's FIRST full lifecycle, digital credit network platform, enabling banks and trusted lenders to offer instant, branded, point of sale BNPL credit, across an omni-channel network of merchants.

Yezdi has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, software executive and technology innovator, and has led successful organizations in India and the US. Prior to founding Flexmoney, Yezdi was an Independent Director on the board of TechProcess Payment Solutions (acquired by Ingenico). He has held multiple leadership roles across various business divisions at Microsoft in the US. Yezdi moved back to India in 2012 as General Manager at Zynga India, the pioneering consumer internet gaming company, where he was responsible for all aspects of operating and growing the global consumer internet P&Ls of two of Zynga's large game franchises.

Atul Mehta, Senior VP - Sales, Razorpay

Atul has 15+ years of hands-on Global experience in the areas of Fintech, Alliances, Enterprise Sales, Channel Sales, Analytics driven strategy, and Business Intelligence. He has exposure across Digital Payments, Travel, Telecom, FMCG, & Government domains and managed large teams to successfully deliver projects across sectors. Atul excelled in client facing roles involving P&L management and setting & achieving business expansion, revenue enhancement, client acquisition and account management targets. He loves sharing his knowledge and has been a speaker at various industry forums and colleges including IIMA, IIMB, MDI, MUSB, FMS, IIMV etc. Atul has previously worked with companies like MobiKwik, PayU & KPMG.

Ravikant Agrawal, VP- Strategy, Polygon Technology ( prev. Matic Network)

Ravikant is currently the Vice President of Strategy at Polygon. Prior to this, he was the Principal Consultant at Infosys Consulting (FSI) with a focus on the Retail Banking, Consumer Lending, and Payments domains.

He has been passionately discovering the blockchain technology landscape for the last 5 years. He actively contributes to blockchain community development by being part of several global working groups, speaker at several conferences/forums/universities, runs one of the top blockchain meetup groups with 2500+ enthusiasts, conducts training, and writes articles/blogs.

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