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Simone Cortese is Chief Product Officer at Fnality International, the firm building a regulated distributed-ledger-based wholesale payment system that settles in a digital representation of central bank money. He leads the product roadmap for the banks and market participants that use Fnality's infrastructure.

Cortese has more than a decade of experience across fintech, capital markets and academic research. He joined the company to explore the use of blockchain in regulated environments and was closely involved in the formation of Fnality, drawing on both technical and business expertise to shape products for traditional and digital capital markets. He is a frequent commentator on regulated digital market infrastructure, stablecoins and tokenised deposits.

Yaniv Gidron is a Co-Founder of Monee Financial Technologies, a fintech company incorporated in London in 2025 that works on digital securities and has participated in the Bank of England and FCA Digital Securities Sandbox. He serves as Co-Chief Executive alongside co-founder Vinay Anupindi and leads asset strategy and operations.

Gidron brings around 14 years of experience in private banking and wealth management, including time as a private banker focused on private wealth management at Scotiabank, before co-founding Monee.

Floris Lugt is Chief Financial Officer at Qivalis, the Amsterdam-based joint venture formed by ING and a consortium of European banks to launch a euro-denominated stablecoin. He took up the CFO role at the start of 2026.

Before joining Qivalis, Lugt was Lead Digital Assets, Wholesale Banking at ING, and earlier held roles in treasury and financial risk at ING and ING France. He focuses on distributed ledger technology and its applications in wholesale banking, and advocates for industry-wide standards for digital payments and financial market infrastructure across Europe.