Georgios Samakovitis

Professor of FinTech at University of Greenwich

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George Samakovitis is Professor of FinTech and the Deputy Head of School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences at the University of Greenwich, UK, specialising in banking and payment systems technologies, Enterprise Architectures and AI for FinTech. His present research focuses on the deployment and governance of technologies for Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime, with particular emphasis on the use of blockchain agents to develop Collective Intelligence capabilities in FinTech networks, and the delivery of compliance models for programmable digital assets.

George is presently a member of the Bank of England CBDC Technology Forum advising the UK Cental Bank on the design and development of the Digital Pound; in the past, he has been a member of the Counter Fraud & Data Analytics Advisory Group of the HMG Cabinet Office (2017-22) and the FinCrime Working Group at the UK Payments Strategy Forum (2015-18), particularly working on KYC and Transaction Data Sharing and Analytics strategies and solutions for the UK Financial Services. George has also been a member of the BSI UK Data Standards Expert Panel, a diverse cross-sector panel of senior data executives, which published the 2023 BSI Value of Data Report, informing the UK National Data Strategy, supporting the foundations of a National Digital Infrastructure and facilitating data standards interoperability across UK industry sectors.

George’s previous research focus has been on banking technology investment decisions in economic booms and downturns, addressing, among other issues, the banking sector’s attitudes to uncertainty and risk under the disparate decision-making paradigms dictated by economic climate.