Jacques-Olivier Schatz

Jacques-Olivier Schatz is CEO and President at Xpollens, a Banking-as-a-Service platform within Groupe BPCE, a role he has held since September 2024. Xpollens operates as a payment infrastructure provider, enabling companies to integrate payment functionalities, IBANs, and virtual accounts via API. Prior to assuming the CEO title, Schatz served as Directeur Général of Xpollens from March 2023 to September 2024. In that capacity, and continuing into his current role, he has overseen client deployments across sectors including marketplaces, insurance, and mobility, with named clients including Adeo (Leroy Merlin), Nirio (Groupe FDJ), and Gireve.

Schatz has no stated involvement in digital assets, tokenisation, or blockchain within the source material, beyond Xpollens providing payment infrastructure to Wigl, an application combining euro payments and cryptocurrency investment. Before joining Xpollens, he served as DG/COO at Pledg, a buy-now-pay-later fintech, from March 2021 to March 2023. He was Directeur Général at Compte-Nickel (now Nickel) from October 2017 to May 2020, having joined that company as Secrétaire Général in July 2016. Between those two stints, he held the DG/COO position at Wakam, a B2B2C insurance company, from May 2020 to February 2021. Earlier in his career, he spent approximately nine years at Alten in a progression of finance roles, including Chief of Staff and CFO positions across several group entities, before which he held a commercial role at B2i Automotive Engineering. He holds a degree from HEC School of Management.