Breaking News
About Nicola Anderson
https://www.fintechscotland.com/
Nicola Anderson, CEO for FinTech Scotland. FinTech Scotland works across private, public and third sectors, and academia to enable economic growth and inclusion in the developing face of digital financial services.
Nicola is a business leader with experience across multiple sectors and supporting innovation, people development, building strategy, change management, understanding risk and financial services regulation.
She has considerable experience in financial services and prior to joining FinTech Scotland was a senior leader at the FCA, where she worked as part of the Retail Banking Supervision senior leadership team.
In this role she contributed to the development of solutions needed to address complex industry issues following the financial crisis. She has engaged with Boards and Executives at different retail banks on a number of significant business transformational changes and operational risk issues, often working in collaboration with other UK regulatory bodies.
Nicola's broader business experience includes the hospitality, food and drink industry, working for Bass plc and Wetherspoons plc. As a leader in this sector her experience spans across the lifecycle of business development with business and operational experience of start-up through to growth, maturity and orderly wind-down.
As a leader Nicola prefers to empower colleagues and coach to support professional development. This approach has helped her in the variety of change management and change projects roles she's experienced throughout her career, including her role in delivering elements of the operational programme needed to implement the FCA's sectoral approach to Supervision.
Nicola Anderson is a champion for consumers, people and inclusion. She has been instrumental in developing lasting relationships between FinTech Scotland and a broad range of consumer and citizen advocate groups such as Money Advice Scotland, Advice Direct Scotland, Age Scotland and Mental Health and Money Advice. This work created the first fintech consumer panel in Europe and has enabled cross sector collaboration in building fintech propositions focused on citizen prioritised needs.
Beyond work Nicola is a business mentor in the homeless charity sector, working to support the charities operational resilience planning and enable strategies to manage longer term funding risks through funding diversification.