Financial headwinds have scattered lots of the positive factors that fintech firms made throughout the tech funding increase of 2021. Living proof — world fee platforms Stripe and Checkout.com lowered their inner valuations. Nonetheless, it will be unwise to rely out the alternatives for fintech development, particularly within the U.S.
Understanding the present and future state of funds is important, and it’s why we’re thrilled that Céline Dufétel, president and COO of Checkout.com, will be part of us September 19 on the Fintech Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, which runs September 19–21 in San Francisco.
Beforehand Checkout’s CFO and COO, Dufétel donned the presidential mantle final April. She advised TechCrunch she’s bullish on U.S. growth, and we’ll dig into the place she sees development alternatives throughout her session, “The Way forward for Funds.”
We’re keen to listen to extra about her newish position and what, if any, adjustments she could enact. We’ll additionally get her tackle the general state of the funds trade and the place she thinks it’s headed.
The corporate just lately launched Checkout.com Issuing, a product that permits its prospects to create fee playing cards for their very own prospects. What else lies forward for Checkout.com?
Céline Dufétel: Checkout.com president and COO
Céline Dufétel oversees the operational and go-to-market groups — in addition to all monetary, treasury and technique capabilities — at Checkout.com. The worldwide funds platform serves large-scale e-commerce and companies retailers resembling Netflix, GE HealthCare, Pizza Hut, Siemens and Sony; fintech unicorns resembling Klarna, Qonto, WorldRemit and lots of the world’s largest crypto gamers.
As COO, Dufétel leads the corporate’s technique on all issues involving operations, authorized, danger and regulation. She can be Checkout.com’s government sponsor of range, equality and inclusivity (DEI).
Previous to Checkout.com, Dufétel was the COO and CFO of Fortune 500 asset supervisor, T. Rowe Value. Earlier than that, she was managing director and world head of promoting and consumer service at Neuberger Berman, and he or she began her company profession as a companion at McKinsey & Firm.
Dufétel was named to Barron’s 100 Most Influential Ladies in U.S. Finance in 2021 and to Fortune’s 40 below 40 in 2020. A local of France, she earned her bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in utilized arithmetic and economics from École Polytechnique in Paris, and a grasp’s diploma in finance from Princeton.
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