Taner Akcok

Head of Global API Banking at Deutsche Bank AG

Speaker

Taner Akcok is a serial entrepreneur, intrapreneur and investor. He works at Deutsche Bank as Head of API Platform and Integration Services and is also an advisor at Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures. He has 2 exits and is listed as Forbes 30 under 30 in Europe. Taner started his career at Microsoft and after 4.5 years of experience founded AppAnalytics, which became the second fastest growing B2B startup in the world according to Business Insider. In 2016, he sold his analytics company to Nomad Commerce and joined Webtrekk, where he built the first GDPR-compliant customer intelligence platform in Europe. Webtrekk became the fifth largest analytics solution in the world according to Forrester Wave Research and was acquired by Mapp in 2018. Taner then founded finleap connect and worked there as Managing Director, CPO and CTO. finleap connect became the leading financial API platform in Europe. Taner has extensive experience with API platforms, Open Banking, Banking as a Service (BaaS), Embedded Finance and Contextual Banking. He studied Business Administration at Istanbul University and Innovation Management at Stanford University. He is a full-stack business and tech leader with strong technical understanding and experience.