Sophia Furber is a journalist with S&P Global Market Intelligence, where she leads EMEA fintech and banking tech reporting. Full Bio

Sophia Furber is a journalist with S&P Global Market Intelligence, where she leads EMEA fintech and banking tech reporting. Sophia has over 10 years' experience as a financial journalist and political analyst, having worked with Oxford Business Group, The Carter Center and a range of leading business titles prior to joining S&P Global. Minimize

Salman Khan heads the Commercial Banking Product Segment for EMEA. Full Bio

Salman Khan heads the Commercial Banking Product Segment for EMEA. Salman focuses on uncovering new trends in the banking sector and their potential impact on the business with the goal of developing products that help banks solve critical business challenges across various operating segments including commercial lending, risk management and corporate strategy. 

Previously, Salman was working as a Banks Equity Strategist at HSBC covering global investment and wholesale banks, where he analysed banking sector trends across developed and emerging markets and proposed investment strategies to fund and portfolio managers. Salman has over 9 years of experience working within the financial institutions sector in various product, research and commercial roles. Minimize

Simon Taylor is the Co-Founder and Blockchain Practice Lead at 11:FS. Full Bio

Simon Taylor is the Co-Founder and Blockchain Practice Lead at 11:FS. Simon has been immersed in the technology of financial services for as long as he’s been working and is consistently voted one of the most influential people in Banking, Insurance and Fintech by banks, his peers and a number of industry bodies.

Simon Led Blockchain Research and Development at Barclays, where Barclays became the first bank in the world to perform a live trade finance transaction over a Blockchain / DLT with a real customer attached. Today Simon advises Governments, Regulators and some of the worlds largest Banks, Financial Institutions and Corporations on how Blockchain and DLT will impact their business in the short, medium and long term. Prior to this Simon helped build the Barclays www.thinkrise.com programme and held a number of roles in payments, banking and the telco sector.

In addition Simon is a co-host of both Fintech Insider the #1 Business Podcast in Europe and Blockchain Insider the fastest growing business podcast and the home of Blockchain knowledge and first rate interviews Minimize

Ruth Wandhöfer is an expert in the field of banking, regulatory and innovation matters. Full Bio

Ruth Wandhöfer is an expert in the field of banking, regulatory and innovation matters. After a distinguished career of over a decade with Citi, Ruth is now an independent Non-Executive Director on the boards of Permanent TSB and Digital Identity Net as well as a Partner at Gauss Ventures – focused on early stage FinTech investment – and a Co-Founder and Partner at Sinonyx, a digital asset consulting and advisory firm.

She is a Strategic Adviser of the European Third Party Provider Association (ETPPA) and until recently she also served as independent Non-Executive Director on the Board of the London Stock Exchange Group and Pendo Systems Inc.

Ruth was named as one of 2010s ‘Rising Stars’ by Financial News; named in Management Today’s 2011 ‘35 Women under 35’ list of women to watch (Sunday Times), and one of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance 2012 as named by Treasury Risk Magazine. In 2015 she was the recipient of the ‘Women in Banking and Finance Award for Achievement’ and in 2016 she was named on the global ‘Women in Fintech Powerlist’ of Innovate Finance in 2016 –2018. She is a Global Fintech 50 Influencer and championing women to rise to the top of the technology and FinTech world. Minimize