About Quintin Stephen

Quintin Stephen is a highly experienced global payment expert with over 28 years of experience. His current focus and passion are centered on passwordless customer authentication, aiming to protect customers from fraud while ensuring a seamless customer experience. He explores ways to integrate passwordless authentication with digital payments, including wallets, open banking, digital assets, CBDC, instant payments, digital-first strategies, eCommerce, and "banking as a service," to deliver a user-friendly yet secure payment experience. He consistently seeks to leverage his extensive experience in various key roles—ranging from Strategy and Operations to Sales, Product, and Executive leadership—to build a better and more secure payment experience for all. His journey includes founding a payment fintech, where he served as CEO for five years, dedicated to creating an improved card checkout solution at the point of sale. The rapidly expanding digital payment and authentication landscape continually inspires him. Quintin Stephen, based in Munich, Germany, is currently a Director of Global Strategy at Giesecke+devrient. Quintin Stephen brings experience from previous roles at Aci Worldwide, Wirecard Ag, Iveri Payment Technologies (Pty) LTD and Touchpoint Payments. Quintin Stephen holds a 2004 - 2008 Bachelor Of Business Administration in Business Administration @ Graduate School of Marketing.