Stephane Rio (Past Speaker)

Stéphane founded ICA, a Capital Markets Fintech, in 2015, with the vision to provide solutions to the challenges created by the escalating regulation on derivatives: increasingly complex computations and the handling of massive data sets are now required to compute valuations and risk figures, and ICA is bringing BigTech expertise to solve these issues with speed, agility and cost efficiency. Stéphane’s background is both from the banking world (he started as a quant and then moved to trading to become global head of swaps trading at Commerzbank; he was called in as a board member to rescue Depfa late 2008) and the fintech world (his first start-up was Swapstream in 2003, an electronic trading platform for interest rate swaps, sold to the CME in 200; he also worked with a private equity firm to identify fintech investment opportunities).