About Kartik Taneja

Kartik Taneja has led large and complex businesses in the payments and lending space. He currently leads the payments business at Mashreq bank. His previous  assignment was to lead the global product function for credit cards and personal loans at Standard Chartered. In this role, he drove strategy and multi-market product engineering and business initiatives across 24 Asian and African markets.  Prior to this, Kartik led the regional cards and loans business at Standard Chartered for the ASEAN region and has held GM roles in multiple Asian markets.   Kartik Taneja credits his success to his exposure to multiple verticals besides P&L Management. He is passionate about combining data, technology and customer insight to experimentation leading to creative and profitable new products and services.  Kartik Taneja holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies at the University of Delhi, A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Delhi Technological University. He also has completed management programs from Harvard and Oxford. Kartik believes in pursuing truth, beauty and adventure. Kartik Taneja helps organizations in digital transformation and scale across payments, cards, merchant acquiring, lending, remittances, and other consumer businesses. He leads an agile payments and consumer lending tribe, which is delivering breakthrough ideas in payments and lending. Neopay (Idfaa payments) is a top 5 merchant acquirer and processor in MENA, processing around $25Bn of transactions. Mashreq is a significant force in remittances, real-time payments, lending, credit, debit, corporate cards, and wallets in the region. Prior to this, Kartik Taneja has led a $25B Asia-based payment and lending business to deliver over $1.3B topline. His experience is both in developed and emerging markets across Asia and the Middle East. He’s a deeply curious person and enjoys taking calculated risks—experimenting to understand what motivates people to act. Find the point where the light bulb goes off - “it works.” Specialties: credit cards, payments, transformation, turnaround, rewards, wallets, mobile money, product marketing, banking, digital marketing, financial services, blockchain, unsecured lending, loans, risk management, analytics, scorecards, strategic planning, integration, acquisition.