The power of community to inspire change
For this Women in Open Banking edition of the Open Banking Expo Unplugged podcast, Ellie Duncan is joined by Yaspa’s chief marketing officer Kate Marsden, head of compliance and deputy MLRO Sarah Ahle, and Renuka Rawlins, head of policy and public affairs. They discuss their involvement as a partner of the initiative and what the power of community means to them as an organisation and individuals. They also reveal how Yaspa came to achieve a 50/50 gender split in its senior leadership team and why DEI initiatives are more vital than ever.
Kate Marsden
Kate Marsden
Chief Marketing Officer YaspaKate Marsden is the CMO of award-winning open banking platform Yaspa, and over the last few years has overseen its rebrand from Citizen, and its growth into one of the leading providers of payment and identity verification services to businesses across the UK and Europe. Kate has worked for almost three decades across many start-ups, scale-ups and corporates in the fintech space, and is delighted to be chairing the Payments stage at this year’s Open Banking Expo.
Sarah Ahle
Sarah Ahle
Head of Compliance and Deputy MLRO Yaspa
Renuka Rawlins
Renuka Rawlins
Head of Policy & Public Affairs YaspaRenuka Rawlins is Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Yaspa, an award-winning real-time payments provider. Before joining Yaspa, Renuka shaped open banking and tech policy at Revolut, and at Barclays, she led the Digitalisation of Trade Taskforce. A former civil servant, she is a policy enthusiast and public affairs specialist with a strong background in stakeholder engagement across government, financial services and technology.
Ellie Duncan
Ellie Duncan
Head of Content Open Banking ExpoFormer Financial Times Group journalist Ellie Duncan has a decade of experience across financial services. While arguably best-known for her asset management work, she has also covered open banking, credit, private equity and entrepreneurship.
