Syed Musheer AhmedFounder & Managing Director, FinStep Asia

Musheer is the Founder & Managing Director of FinStep Asia, which is building Asia’s next generation of Businesses and providing advisory on Fintech & Digital ecosystems in Asia. FinStep Asia is running a series of initiatives to enable fintechs to scale and expand across Asia, from East Asia to MENA. Musheer is the cofounder and board member of Fintech Association of Hong Kong and has an extensive background in financial services and technology, having been a global markets trader for a decade, and a management consultant following his MBA. He is also a member of United Nations ESCAP ESBN Youth and Women Entrepreneurs Taskforce.

Musheer has a keen interest in technologies impacting/disrupting investment banking such as Artificial Intelligence, Digital Banking, RegTech, WealthTech and Blockchain. He has a strong passion to bridge India and China Greater Bay Area and has initiated various programs to connect the two ecosystems, in particular as cofounder of IndiaTech HK. He is a mentor and keynote speaker at industry events across the region and guest lecturer on topics of Fintech, Digital Banking, Investment Management, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence. He has written blogs & articles on Fintech and Investment Banking and been quoted in various media channels, including on CNBC, Bloomberg, SCMP, IFLR, CGTN, Financial Times, Asian Investor, MEDICI, Economic Times, etc.

FinStep Asia is building Asia’s next generation of Businesses and providing advisory on Fintech & Digital ecosystems in Asia. FinStep Asia is running a series of initiatives to enable fintechs to scale and expand across Asia, from East Asia to MENA. We partner with Corporates and Startups in their Innovation and Scaling Journey in Asia.

Technology is transforming and rapidly changing landscape of business across industries. We identify emerging trends and market opportunities and build a growth roadmap for our clients to build innovation frameworks. In addition, we enable corporates to engage with startup ecosystem across Asia. We have expertise and understanding of different approaches to enable diversity in services. We provide guidelines to tailor existing services and to empower firms to build new customer offering that include diversity across Gender and Age.