Alex Plekhanov

Alex Plekhanov is a strategy and operations leader working where payments, trade and technology meet. Over 15 years he has built and fixed the operating engines behind cross-border businesses, as an in-house operator and as a consultant at EY-Parthenon. In fintech, he has worked across several business models. At a UK neobank and EMI serving cross-border SMB payments (£1B+ processed), he owned the strategic roadmap: which products to launch in which geographies, and the partners, PSPs and regulatory authorisations needed to get there. He built the transaction monitoring function from scratch, ran payment operations, led a client migration between PSPs and took the business into the Middle East, including regulatory authorisation. At a UK trade-finance platform that has extended £20B i...