Fintech

• Badr Omrane

  

  Badr is Assistant Director, Financial Technology Research in the Information Technology Services Department.

  Department(s): Information Technology Services Research Field(s): Business Models, Digital Currency, Fintech

• Diego Zúñiga

  

  Department(s): Financial Stability, FinTech Policy and Research Research Field(s): Financial Economics, Fintech, Market Microstructure, Monetary Economics

• Phoebe Tian

  

  Phoebe Tian is a Senior Economist in the Financial Stability Department (FSD).

  Department(s): Financial Stability, Financial Studies Research Field(s): Applied Econometrics, Empirical Finance, Financial Economics, Financial Institutions, Financial Markets, Fintech, Household Finance, Industrial Organization, Payments Economics

• Sebastian Hernandez

  

  Sebastian Hernandez is a Senior User Experience Specialist in the FinTech Research Department at the Bank of Canada.

  Department(s): Information Technology Services Research Field(s): Digital Currency, Fintech

• Maryam Haghighi

  

  Maryam Haghighi is the Director of Data Science at the Bank of Canada.

  Department(s): Corporate Services Research Field(s): Agent-Based Modelling, Data Science, Fintech, Forecasting

• Sriram Darbha

  

  Sriram Darbha is a Solutions Architect in the Fintech Research team. He leads the research and analysis into the core technical architecture of retail Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) systems.

  Department(s): Information Technology Services Research Field(s): Digital Currency, Fintech

• Sofia Priazhkina

  

  Sofia Priazhkina is a Principal Researcher in the Financial Stability Department at the Bank of Canada.

  Department(s): Financial Stability, FinTech Policy and Research Research Field(s): Banking, Digital Currency, Economic and Financial Networks, Financial Economics, Financial Institutions, Financial Markets, Fintech, Game Theory, Market Microstructure, Microeconomic Theory, Money and Banking, Payments Economics

• Christopher Henry

  

  Christopher (Chris) is a Senior Economist and serves as lead for the consumer survey research program on the Currency Department’s Economic Research and Analysis team.

  Department(s): Currency, Economic Research and Analysis Research Field(s): Applied Microeconomics, Digital Currency, Fintech, Payments Economics, Retail Payments Alma Mater: McMaster University

• Scott Hendry

  

  Scott Hendry was appointed Senior Special Director, Financial Technology (FinTech) in the Banking and Payments Department (BAP) in June 2016. In this role, he oversees the Bank’s efforts to monitor and research developments and implications of new technologies affecting the financial sector.

  Department(s): Banking and Payments, Strategic Leadership Research Field(s): Fintech, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Monetary Economics Alma Mater: University of Western Ontario