MANAMA: Founder and former chairman of Atom Bank and Metro Bank, Anthony Thomson, will speak again at the third Middle East and Africa FinTech Forum, the region’s premier fintech conference.
The event will be held in Manama on February 20-21 under the patronage of the Central Bank of Bahrain, sponsored by Bank ABC and Arab Financial Services (AFS).
In July 2010 he launched Metro Bank as the first new ‘high street bank’ in the UK for over 150 years. Anthony served as the first chairman from 2009 until 2012, before leaving the bank in December 2012.
In 2014, he launched Atom Bank, Europe’s first bank designed for mobile, voted by KPMG as one of the world’s top 10 fintechs. He served as chairman until January 2018.
In this session at the fintech forum, Mr Thomson will discuss his new fintech venture in Australia, 86400, which will be launching in early 2019 as a real alternative to Australia’s ‘big 4’ banks.
Sael Al Waary, deputy group chief executive of Bank ABC and chairman of AFS, said: “We are delighted to have Mr Thomson once again as a keynote speaker. His experience with challenger banks and customer led banking will add great value to the topics of discussions at the forum, and we are looking forward for these discussions.”
The Middle East and Africa FinTech Forum, which is sponsored by Bank ABC and AFS, brings together internationally renowned thought leaders, practitioners and innovators from the fintech and artificial intelligence arenas to discuss a wide range of issues including the future of banking, potential impact of AI and how it will transform the future, open banking, crowdsourcing and financial inclusion.
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