Today, Sophie speaks to Quentin Vigneau, Head of Payments at Swile. Quentin has vast experience working in fintech. He’s spent time working in engineering and product roles at giants Worldline and Checkout.com and also founded his own payments startup. 

Most recently Quentin joined the team at Swile where he heads up payments for the Series C funded scale up. Swile uses technology and UX to improve employee benefits experience. Launched in 2018 (originally under the name Lunchr) - their goal was to reinvent lunch breaks with colleagues and employee engagement in general. Now, 3 years on, the platform is used by 400,000 employees at some of the world biggest brands. 

But what we're interested in hearing about is how Swile have also been embedding a financial proposition within the employee benefits space!

At Money20/20 Sophie caught up with Roisin Levine, Head of UK and European Partnerships at Wise. Roisin has been working within the tech and fintech space for the past 11 years. Before recently taking her new role at Wise, she held senior positions at well known fintech companies Flux and Funding Options. 

Roisin is a decorated fintech star, being recognised countless times within the Women in Fintech Powerlist as well as being nominated as Young Leader of the Year and the Women in Credit Award’s Transformation of the Year award. 

Wise is one of the UK’s golden fintechs and a North Star business for many startups - recently completing a direct listing on the London Stock Exchange. Wise supports consumers and businesses of all sizes to move money cross-border.

At Money20/20 we spoke with Carmela Gómez Castelao, Head of Open Banking at BBVA. 

Carmela has spent more than 20 years working in financial services and Fintech, including 17 at BBVA - where she has held every role from Head of Global Treasury, to COO of New Digital Business - before finding herself leading BBVA’s Global Open Banking programme.

BBVA has earned a reputation for being one of Europe’s most digitally advanced banks. Carmela has a key role in that effort - leading the company’s foray into Open Banking and playing a pivotal role in their collaboration with startups.

That makes Carmela the perfect person to join us at Beyond Fintech to share her career, her background, but also to deep dive into collaboration and answer that age-old question: How should established banks and startups work together?