Christophe Langlois hosted 49 top interviews at the Paris Fintech Forum 2020 with fintech CEOs and banking executives from Revolut, Lydia, Qonto, Kabbage, BNP Paribas.
The Paris Fintech Forum (PFF) is the most exclusive European annual event on digital finance & fintech, organized by Altéir Event.
Paris Fintech Forum 2020 Interviews by Christophe Langlois
As mentioned in a previous article, I was both honoured and excited that Laurent Nizri invited me to contribute to the success of the #PFF20: Laurent invited me to be the host of the official Paris Fintech Forum 2020 interviews with his prestigious speakers.
Paris Fintech Forum 2020 Achievements
Please find below a few statistics on the Paris Fintech Forum 2020.

2,700+ attendees
1,340 firms / 75 countries
500+ fintech CEOs & Founders on site
320 Leaders on stage
Founders, CEOs, VCs
200+ Partners & exhibitors
Top Interviews – Paris Fintech Forum 2020
It was a pleasure to interview so many passionate and experienced entrepreneurs, banking professionals, VCs, researchers and influencers.
Among the recurrent topics of conversation were the usual suspects:
- providing outstanding customer experience (data, AI) and driving customer advocacy
- enabling financial inclusion
- recruiting exceptional talent with the right skills and the right cultural fit
- fostering diversity
You will find below my favorite fintech interviews from the Paris Fintech Forum 2020.









All Interviews – Paris Fintech Forum 2020
You will find below all the interviews I recorded with 49 of the Paris Fintech Forum Speakers by alphabetical order.
COMPANY | NAME | JOB TITLE | COUNTRY |
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Alfa-Bank | Vladimir Verkhoshinskiy | CEO | Russian Federation |
Arkea | Ronan Le Moal | CEO | France |
Augmentum Fintech | Tim Levene | CEO | UK |
BankMobile | Jay Sidhu | Chairman | USA |
BNP Paribas | Marguerite Bérard | Head of Retail Banking France | France |
BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions | Charlotte Dennery | CEO | France |
BPCE | Merete Buljo | Chief Digital & Customer Experience Officer | France |
BPIFrance | Arnaud Caudoux | Deputy CEO | France |
Crowded Media Group | Andrew Dix | CEO | USA |
Cube | Ben Richmond | CEO | UK |
Curve | Shachar Bialick | CEO | UK |
European Banking Federation | Wim Mijs | CEO | Belgium |
Finastra | Simon Paris | CEO | UK |
Fintonic | Lupina Iturriaga | CEO | Spain |
Flourish Ventures | Emmalyn Shaw | Managing Partner | USA |
Flywire | Mike Massaro | CEO | USA |
Forter | Michael Reitblat | CEO | USA |
Government of Lithuania | Vilius Šapoka | Minister of Finance | Lithuania |
Hiveonline | Sofie Blakstad | CEO | Denmark |
ING France | Karien Van Gennip | CEO | Netherlands |
ING Ventures | Benoit Legrand | CEO | Netherlands |
INVYO | Xavier Gomez | Founder | France |
Kabbage | Kathryn Petralia | President | USA |
Kantox | Philippe Gelis | CEO | UK |
Kompany | Russell Perry | CEO | Austria |
Lydia | Cyril Chiche | CEO | France |
Mastercard | Ann Cairns | Executive Vice Chairman | USA |
Moven | Brett King | Executive Chairman | USA |
Neterium | Pascal Aerens | CEO | Belgium |
October | Olivier Goy | CEO | France |
OneRagtime | Stephanie Hospital | CEO | France |
Paisabazaar.com | Naveen Kukreja | CEO | India |
Paypa Plane | Simone Joyce | CEO | Australia |
PayU | Laurent Le Moal | CEO | Netherlands |
Poynt | Osama Bedier | CEO | USA |
Qonto | Alexandre Prot | CEO | France |
Receipt Bank | Adrian Blair | CEO | UK |
Revolut | Nik Storonsky | CEO | UK |
Rich Thinking | Barbara Stewart | Author | Canada |
solarisBank | Roland Folz | CEO | Germany |
Tink | Daniel Kjellen | CEO | Sweden |
Token | Todd Clyde | CEO | UK |
Upgrade | Renaud Laplanche | CEO | USA |
Vadis Technologies | Jean-Francois Heering | CEO | Belgium |
Valocity Global | Carmen Vicelich | CEO | New Zealand |
Wells Fargo | Lisa Frazier | Head of the Innovation Group | USA |