While most fintech executives talk about payments as a growth story, Iana Dimitrova talks about them as a matter of national security.
“Payments infrastructure is now critical not just to economic growth, but to national sovereignty, to national security,” says the chief executive of OpenPayd, the B2B infrastructure provider that lets businesses offer banking and payment services across fiat and stablecoin rails without becoming licensed financial institutions themselves.
The company recently announced a Nasdaq listing via a SPAC merger at a $1.14 billion valuation.
“This is why we all need to work together in order to drive the regulatory agenda, the technical standards to ensure that infrastructure is actually independent and sustainable.”
At IFGS at London’s Guildhall this year, Tech Funding News sat down with Dimitrova to unpack what it takes to build that kind of infrastructure, and why she believes the UK has a time-sensitive opportunity to turn its fintech strengths into lasting global leadership.
