Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor is Head of Market Development at Tempo, a layer 1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm and built specifically for payment systems. At Tempo, he leads go-to-market activity for a platform designed to address reliability and cost challenges in blockchain-based payments, including a stablecoin fee structure and transaction features such as memo fields to support reconciliation and compliance. Design partners for the platform include Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, UBS, OpenAI, and DoorDash.

Taylor is also the founder of Fintech Brainfood, a weekly newsletter with over 45,000 subscribers across banks, fintech companies, and venture capital firms, which he has run independently since 2019. He serves as a Strategic Advisor at Sardine, a fraud and compliance technology company. Earlier in his career he held roles at BT, TSYS, and Barclays, where he led blockchain R&D. He co-founded 11:FS and has spent over two decades working across payments, banking, crypto, and consulting. He is a board member and founder of Global Digital Finance, an industry body focused on the adoption of digital finance. He speaks regularly at industry events and has appeared as a commentator for the BBC, CNBC, and the Financial Times.