Panel: Tech of FinTech

Elspeth Minty is a Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets. Elspeth has worked in the financial industry for more than two decades, with a focus on core library development and code re-use. She has been involved in FINOS for a number of years and is currently a member of its Technical Steering Committee, as well as a co-lead of the OpenSource Readiness SIG.  Elspeth has presented at conferences, including SpringOne, QCon Shanghai and InnerSource Commons Gathering.

Frank is an engineering leader at Coinbase, focusing on distributed low latency trading platforms. Prior to Coinbase, he served as Principal Engineer and later Director of Software Engineering at FairX, leading the design and build of what would become the Coinbase Derivatives Exchange post acquisition. Frank has spent over a decade making tradeoffs on mission critical systems with submillisecond response times and loves chatting about complexity, testing, and performance.

Oli Bage is Head of Architecture for the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Data & Analytics business, one of the world’s largest financial data and analytics companies.  LSEG infrastructure powers the world’s financial markets, including running the planet’s second largest network and buying a lot of fintech start-ups!  In 2020 Oli founded and now co-chairs the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) industry group of 100 systemically important banks and cloud technology companies, defining what ‘good’ looks like for data on cloud. 

Oli regularly hosts London Enterprise Technology (LNETM) meetups at the London Stock Exchange HQ in Paternoster Square, and is an angel investor in early stage emerging tech. 

Oli has worked in financial technology for 25 years and before joining LSEG, was a Distinguished Engineer in Morgan Stanley’s Center of Excellence for Data.  Oli holds a degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University.

Avtar is has a PhD in theoretical particle physics and a masters in computational engineering; and is a graduate of Imperial College. After his academic career he transitioned to capital markets, focusing across risk management, pricing systems and infrastructure sales. Avtar was an early adopter of Bitcoin and worked on projects such as colored coins. This led him to founding Nivaura, which was a pioneer in primary market workflow automation for issuing debt instruments, and applying this to enabling tokenised bond issuance. Avtar worked on majority of the early industry tokenised bond deals, supporting in  structuring and executing tokenised instruments and leveraging public blockchains to settle using stablecoins. He has worked closely with several financial services regulators and has held MiFID and CASS regulated positions with the FCA in capacities as a CEO/director, MLRO and risk officer. He also advices a number of startups and institutions on blockchain, artificial intelligence and digitalization programs.

John O'Hara is a technical founder and venture partner. He is currently a director at Finbourne, Adaptive Financial Technology, and Taskize which he co-founded and sold to Euroclear. Prior to his career in fintech, John held senior leadership roles at Bank of America, and JPMorgan where he was also a Distinguished Engineer. John is the inventor of AMQP which is incorporated in cloud products from Amazon, Microsoft, and Red Hat.