Kim Gerhardt

Owner and Principal Advisor at The FinTech Interactive

Speaker

Kim Gerhardt is Owner and Principal Advisor at The FinTech Interactive, an advisory firm focused exclusively on digital financial services. Kim has 30 years of experience in consulting and financial services, with expertise in growth strategies, operational excellence, and innovation in risk management. She is passionate about how the use of technology and data in financial services enables access to credit, creates new channels, protects against fraud, and empowers financial institutions to grow and manage their business. She is advising companies that operate in the areas of fair lending, online application fraud and malicious intent, social impact, BaaS, the use of ML/AI, unattended payments, contactless payments, credit risk scoring, collections strategies, and other areas.

Kim has been at the forefront of FinTech, creating first-of-its-kind industry consortiums enabling new entrant challengers to sit alongside traditional banks to understand industry performance and share data analytics, best practices, and perspectives in the industry. Through this work, she has developed a broad network of trusted relationships with senior risk executives at traditional banks and FinTechs.