Kani Hires Head of Strategic Solutions to Drive Product Innovation and Customer Experience

 Kani Payments (“Kani”), the award-winning payments reconciliation and reporting platform, today announced the appointment of Andrew Wingfield as Head of Strategic Solutions. This strategic hire underscores Kani’s commitment to enhancing its product suite, improving customer experience, and helping clients navigate new regulatory requirements ahead of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) updated safeguarding regulations coming into force in May 2026.

In his new role, Wingfield will lead the development and delivery of innovative, customer-focused solutions across Kani’s platform. He will focus on making Kani’s products easier to use, more powerful, and aligned with the operational needs of Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs), issuers, and fintechs globally.

His remit will also include advancing Kani’s safeguarding solution to help clients comply with the FCA’s updated rules under the CASS regime, ensuring efficiency, accuracy and confidence in managing safeguarded balances.

Wingfield brings with him over a decade of financial operations and analytics experience, having previously held senior roles at Raphaels Bank, PomeloPay, and The Payment Firm. He also spent a number of years working as a consultant to fintechs across the UK and Europe. His extensive expertise in financial modelling, safeguarding, and reporting will strengthen Kani’s capability to deliver best-in-class products and expand its analytical and forecasting tools.

Andrew Wingfield, Head of Strategic Solutions at Kani Payments, said “My immediate focus will be on developing products that are not only compliant and future-proofed, but also intuitive and efficient for our customers to use.

“With the FCA’s new safeguarding requirements only seven months away, there’s a real opportunity to help firms manage these regulatory pressures with confidence, accuracy and speed. By listening closely to our customers and building tools around their real-world needs, we’ll continue to make Kani’s solutions the go-to-choice for EMIs and issuers. I’m delighted to join the business at such an exciting time.”

Through this appointment, Kani will also further enhance its customer-facing capabilities and increase internal bandwidth for product innovation. Enabling the business to accelerate the development of its scheme and acquirer reporting suite, expand its analytical and forecasting tools, and introduce new data-driven features designed to simplify complex financial operations for its growing global client base.

“Andrew’s appointment marks an important milestone in Kani’s growth journey”, said Aaron Holmes, CEO of Kani Payments. “Andrew’s experience and analytical mindset is going to be invaluable as we continue to expand our offerings and refine the customer experience. The work Andrew will lead on will help us deliver even more intuitive, user-centred products that save our clients time and increase operational accuracy. He’s a great addition to the Kani team and to the value we deliver to our customers every day.”

Kani’s continued investment in people and technology demonstrates its commitment to leading the payments industry with trusted, transparent, and intelligent solutions that make compliance and reconciliation effortless for fintechs, issuers, and EMIs alike.