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The Fintechly
Index.

A continuously curated index of the people who matter most in private fintech — founders, operators, investors, regulators, builders. Not a moment-in-time list. The panel adds and removes members at editorial discretion as the industry shifts.

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Nominations are open year-round and are reviewed at the end of every month. Self-nominations are read but earn no points.

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MEMBERS: 15
CITIES: 14
CATEGORIES: 6

WHAT IT IS

An always-on, named index of the operators, founders, investors and regulators most consequential to the building of modern finance, anywhere in the world.

WHAT IT IS NOT

A 30-under-30. Not age-gated. Not job-title-gated. Not country-gated. Not a one-night-only ranking that is forgotten by Q2.

HOW IT MOVES

Names are added when their work earns it. Names are removed when their work no longer does. The full change log is public, dated, and signed by the editor.

RECENTLY ADDED

EDITORIAL HIGHLIGHTS

Amara Okafor

Founders UK · ADDED APR 2026

Amara Okafor.

CEO, Conduit · London

“Built the cross-border B2B stablecoin rail that three of Europe’s largest PSPs have quietly become customers of.”

Léa Bertrand

Policymakers EU · ADDED APR 2026

Léa Bertrand.

Head of EU Policy, Circle · Brussels

“The single most important non-regulator voice in the post-MiCA conversation; published the de-facto distribution playbook every issuer is now reading.”

Ravi Iyer

Builders ASIA · ADDED MAR 2026

Ravi Iyer.

Co-founder, Ledgr · Bangalore

“The double-entry ledger primitive he co-built is now the substrate underneath eleven of the thirty newest licensed banks in South Asia.”

CATEGORY

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SORTED BY DATE ADDED

Marcus Chen

Investors US · ADDED MAR 2026

Marcus Chen.

Managing Partner, Meridian Capital · New York

“Assembled the most quietly successful sovereign-LP fintech fund of the cycle; a reference for any founder thinking about non-Sand Hill capital.”

Kenji Mori

Founders ASIA · ADDED MAR 2026

Kenji Mori.

Founder, Orbital · Tokyo

“Built the first market-infrastructure firm a Japanese regulator has openly modelled new rule-making around in a decade.”

Rachel Tan

Operators EU · ADDED FEB 2026

Rachel Tan.

CTO, Clearbank EU · Frankfurt

“The technical leader behind one of the fastest-growing BaaS providers in Europe; quietly the architect of three of the continent’s most-watched neobanks.”

Helena Marques

Founders EU · ADDED FEB 2026

Helena Marques.

CEO, Rampa · Lisbon

“Built the only southern-European acquirer that has materially taken share from Adyen on in-person volume.”

Yael Bar-On

Investors MENA · ADDED FEB 2026

Yael Bar-On.

General Partner, Redrock Capital · Tel Aviv

“The first cheque into four of the most consequential MENA fintech infrastructure firms of the cycle; sits on more boards that have shipped real product than anyone we know.”

Camille Okonjo

Operators MENA · ADDED JAN 2026

Camille Okonjo.

Operating Partner, Atlas Africa · Lagos

“The operator most often referenced by the founders of pan-African fintechs in private; ran the post-merger integration that built the largest mobile-money group in West Africa.”

Alessandro Conti

Investors UK · ADDED JAN 2026

Alessandro Conti.

Managing Director, Index Ventures · London

“Led the European fintech sleeve of the cycle’s largest fund; the rare GP whose portfolio companies route their hardest decisions through him.”

Daniela Vargas

Founders LATAM · ADDED JAN 2026

Daniela Vargas.

Founder, Cobalto Pay · Mexico City

“Built the LATAM merchant-acquiring stack that proved stablecoin settlement at point-of-sale is not a science project; eight regulators have visited.”

Tomás Ribeiro

Operators LATAM · ADDED DEC 2025

Tomás Ribeiro.

Group CTO, Nubank · São Paulo

“Re-architected the largest neobank in the Americas without a public outage; the most-cited engineering leader on the LATAM side of the masthead.”

Mei-Lin Cho

Regulators ASIA · ADDED DEC 2025

Mei-Lin Cho.

Head of Fintech, Sovereign Singapore · Singapore

“Wrote the Singapore digital-bank licensing framework everyone else is now copying; the single most-cited regulator in the room when sovereigns talk fintech.”

Felix Vandenberg

Operators EU · ADDED NOV 2025

Felix Vandenberg.

Head of Digital Assets, Banque Lombard · Zürich

“Quietly built the largest private-bank stablecoin desk in Europe inside an institution that does not normally make news.”

Priya Anand

Founders EU · ADDED NOV 2025

Priya Anand.

Co-founder, Spektral · Berlin

“Built the German treasury-infrastructure firm that signed three of the four largest European corporates in six months — without a CMO.”

HOW THE INDEX IS RUN

No annual ceremony. No countdown. Just the right people, kept current.

01

Nominations are open year-round.

Anyone can nominate, including the person themselves. Self-nominations are read but earn no points.
02

The panel meets monthly.

Eight standing panellists - operators, investors, regulators, academics - meet on the last Friday of every month to discuss additions and removals.
03

Inclusion is editorial only.

No sponsor sees the index before it is published. No commercial partner gets a say in who is added or removed.
04

The change log is public.

Every addition and removal is logged on the page below, dated, and signed by the editor.

CHANGE LOG

LAST 8 ENTRIES

26 APR 2026 ADDED Amara Okafor Founders · Conduit · LONDON
22 APR 2026 ADDED Léa Bertrand Policymakers · Circle · BRUSSELS
14 APR 2026 REMOVED [redacted, see editor's note] Builders · governance breach
08 APR 2026 ADDED Ravi Iyer Builders · Ledgr · BANGALORE
30 MAR 2026 ADDED Marcus Chen Investors · Meridian Capital · NEW YORK
21 MAR 2026 MOVED Helena Marques Operators → Founders
14 MAR 2026 ADDED Yael Bar-On Investors · Redrock Capital · TEL AVIV
02 MAR 2026 ADDED Camille Okonjo Operators · Atlas Africa · LAGOS

FULL CHANGE LOG IS MAINTAINED IN THE NEWSROOM · VIEW EDITORIAL STANDARDS →

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