Mark Brits is a Senior General Manager at The Banking Association South Africa where he heads the Prudential Regulation Division. Prior to joining The Banking Association in 2003, he was a vice president and head of money markets in the treasury of ING Barings in South Africa for seven years. He holds a BCom and
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Monica Singer is a Chartered Accountant (SA), Fellow of the Institute of Directors and Vice Chair of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). She is a Board Member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Board Member of the Accounting Blockchain Coalition which sets the audit accounting and tax guidelines for
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He is a Fintech founder and previous Director of Product for a Pan-European Robo-advisor. Prior to that, he was a Global Macro Portfolio Manager, where he helped to start and build an investment business.
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Mr Brandon Topham is the Divisional Executive for Enforcement at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority. He is an accomplished business executive with considerable local and international experience in corporate governance, finance and commercial law. He has served as a member of the South African Parliament, and served on the Trade & Industry, Finance, Auditor General
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Jay Shapiro is Founder and CEO of Usiku Games. He has a 20 year track record as a successful entrepreneur, digital marketer and visionary strategist. After leaving Canada in 1995, Jay moved to Asia and completed his MBA at the National University of Singapore. He went on to launch BLUE, which would become one of
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Terry grew up in Cape Town and after military service joined SAB at the Ohlssons Brewery in Newlands. Before IBM launched the Personal Computer in 1983 he was heading down the road of becoming a Cost And Management Accountant however once he got his hands onto one of these devices he quickly realized where the
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Kaj Burchardi is a Managing Director with BCG Platinion with more than 19 years of experience in IT consulting. He has worked with clients from various industries in Europe, US, and Middle East on IT architecture, Digital and Agile transformations. Kaj is leading the Blockchain practice of BCG/Platinion globally and supported clients in the strategy
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Ajit currently leads institutional growth and strategy for Aave, the world’s leading decentralised liquidity protocol with over 5 billion in assets and borrowings. Using public blockchain technology, Aave creates significant opportunities for financial institutions to enhance market transparency, market efficiency, financial inclusion and systemic risk reduction. The last five years of his career have been
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Taha Sajid is a Chief Blockchain Consultant with Limar Global Tech, Founder of Blockchain startups Smart-Mobile POS and MenarQ, Blockchain training alliance (USA) certified Instructor and solution architect, Fintech/Regtec senior advisor in Hash Cash Consultants (USA), Technical Director in Huawei, responsible for Blockchain, AI, Fintech, Cloud, 5G-IOT solutions and training, He is ranked by Thinkers360
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Sean is Chief Technology Manager Head of R&D at Absa with 32 years of extensive knowledge in banking and payments. Sean serves as the Chairperson for the Financial Industry Standards Association and represent South Africa of Head of Delegation at ISO T68. Sean is also very involved with Digital Identity, CBDC and DLT.
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