Helping Executives craft and scale their go-to-market and innovation initiatives
30 years of experience at the intersection of fintech, capital markets and sustainability
Fabian Vandenreydt is a highly experienced strategist and advisor with over 30 years in fintech and financial market infrastructures, focusing on driving innovation, shaping strategy, and leading product and market development. His expertise spans executive roles in global payments and capital markets, where he has consistently propelled companies toward digital transformation and market leadership.
Fabian has been serving as a strategic advisor to NowCM, a pioneering European B2B legaltech platform for digitalizing debt capital markets, and Greenomy, an innovative ESG regulatory reporting solution. He also sits on the advisory boards of several European and US fintechs, where his insights into fintech, capital markets, digital transformation, data governance and ESG are highly valued.
Previously, Fabian served as an Industry Partner at Motive Partners, a Private Equity, looking at M&A and carve-out opportunities in capital markets software vendors/platforms and as a Senior Advisor with the Abu Dhabi Global Market, a global financial centre, focussing on boosting the crypto-related visibility of the centre. His distinguished career includes senior positions with SWIFT, where he was Managing Director overseeing securities markets, partner management, innovation, and thought leadership. Fabian's career foundation includes impactful roles at Capco and JPMorgan/Euroclear.
A recognized thought leader, Fabian is an active contributor to global industry bodies, sharing his expertise in community-level innovation and digital finance transformation. He is also a frequent speaker, sought after for his insights on emerging market trends, new market structures and enabling technologies. His contributions to the fintech and capital markets sectors have earned him several awards.
Fabian holds an MBA from HEC and a Master's in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from ULB.
He resides in Belgium with his family.
Achievements and typical engagements
Innovation Ecosystems Development
Setting-up an open fintech innovation platform from scratch to boost the development of the fintech ecosystem of a European country, supported by the Minister of Finance, and the banking and insurance industry associations
Scaling-up the innovation unit for a global financial service market infrastructure and co-leading the company-wide R&D investment programme
Developed the end-to-end corporate innovation process for a leading international financial centre in the Middle East
Strategic Market, Product and Partnership Management
Developing the sustainable finance and digital assets market strategy, value proposition and business development targets for a leading international financial centre in the Middle East
Redefining and amplifying the securities market strategy and go-to-market execution for a leading, global financial service market infrastructure
Board Chairmanship and Board Committee Management
Coordinating one of the sub-committees of the Board of a leading, global financial service market infrastructure
Chairing the board of an open fintech innovation platformand a regulated capital markets issuance platform
Non-Executive Directorship
Providing strategic advice to 10+ fintech, regtech & proptech start-ups and scale-ups. with deep tech capabilities (e.g., machine-learning, advanced analytics and data privacy mgmt., digital assets) as a non-executive director
Private Equity Investment thesis, scouting and due diligence
Deepening and expanding the investment strategy of a US-UK private equity firm into capital markets post-trade and global payments domains