Hometap, a provider of lending alternatives for homeownership without taking on debt, announced the appointment of Eugene Wong as Chief Financial Officer. Wong will lead Hometap's finance team in developing strategies for acquiring and launching new financial products and services. He joins Hometap from forwarding Financing, a Boston-based fintech company that provides working capital to small businesses, where he served as Vice President of Strategy & Finance.
Klaus Meyer is taking over as Head of the Commercial Finance business of Siemens Financial Services in Germany. The 42-year-old manager joins Siemens Financial Services (SFS) from Commerz Real Mobilienleasing GmbH in Düsseldorf. He has already been working for the financial services provider since June 1, 2022, and is to take over as head of the commercial finance business in Germany on October 1, 2022.
Established in Mexico, Jonathan Hilton, a/k/a Jonathan Hilton Stahl Ducker, is the founder of Edufintech (website), a consulting firm specializing in fintech, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies.
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Unfortunately, it is an indisputable fact that the payment processing industry is crowded with black sheep and scammers. Especially in the area of high-risk payment processors, many players rip off their merchants. These bad payment processors have included collapsed iPayTotal or the related Paypound or NeoBanQ. On 4 June 2022, Paul Schroeder of the UK-based payment processor Xcepts issued a press release, calling Paypound scammers and thieves.
Chris Brummer (website) is a Georgetown University Law Center law professor and the Faculty Director of Georgetown's Institute of International Economic Law. He was nominated by President Obama as a Commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), did a 3-year term as a member of the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA, and is the Founder of Washington DC's Fintech Week.
The Italian Alberto Garuccio (Twitter) is a very innovative and successful entrepreneur who focuses on business innovation and finance. He has gained over 15 years of experience in innovation, investment and modification management at KPMG, Fiat Group, Banca Sella and Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center. Beginning from 2019, he is the Innovation Leader at Reale Lab 1828.
Anne Boden (Twitter) is a UK tech entrepreneur and is best known as the founder and CEO of Starling Bank. She developed the neobank with the reclusive Austrian investor Harald McPike-Zima, who reportedly invested at least £133m in Starling Bank for nearly two-thirds of the shares. Anne is undoubtedly one of the most influential people in the UK fintech scene.
Federal Councilor Ueli Maurer has been named FinTech Influencer of the Year at the Swiss FinTech Awards. He is being honored for promoting Switzerland as a financial center. Initiatives such as the fintech sandbox and approval or the strategic forum for open finance have been mentioned as his merits. In addition, the start-ups Stableton and DeepJudge have been awarded.
