Kartik Taneja

Career arc

1. Executive vice president. Head of payments & consumer lendingNov 2021 — Present

   Mashreq Bank· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Full-time
2. Board MemberSep 2020 — Present

   Emirates Digital Wallet· Dubai, United Arab Emirates
3. Executive Vice President, Head of Payments, Cards, Loans and Digital product factoryJan 2020 — Nov 2021

   Mashreq Bank· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Full-time
4. Executive Chairman, NeopayJan 2020 — Dec 2024

   NEOPAY· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Full-time
5. SVP, Head of paymentsSep 2019 — Jan 2020

   Mashreq Bank· Dubai, United Arab Emirates
6. MD & Global Head - Credit Cards & Unsecured LoansJan 2018 — Jun 2019

   Standard Chartered Bank· Singapore
7. Managing Director & Global Head, Credit Cards2012 — 2017

   Standard Chartered Bank· Singapore
8. Regional Head, Credit Cards & Personal Loans (Singapore & SouthEast Asia)2010 — 2012

   Standard Chartered Bank· Singapore
9. General Manager, Credit Cards & personal Loans (Singapore & Malaysia)2009 — 2010

   Standard Chartered Bank· Singapore
10. Head of Marketing and Analytics2007 — 2009

    Standard Chartered Bank· Singapore
11. Head, Products, Business Development & Strategy2006 — 2007

    Standard Chartered Bank
12. Group Head, Marketing Planning2005 — 2006

    Standard Chartered Bank
13. Various roles in portfolio management, product management and risk1998 — 2004

    Standard Chartered Bank

Education

• Faculty of Management Studies - University of Delhi
  MBA · Management, Business Administration1996 — 1998
• Harvard University
  · Fintech2019 — 2019
• Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
  Leading across boundaries · Advanced leadership development2013 — 2013
• Delhi College of Engineering
  B.E. · Mechanical Engineering1992 — 1996

About

I am driven by a singular mission: to shape the future of financial services by helping organizations transform, innovate and scale in a world defined by 3 key trends - Digital, AI and Virtual Assets. My work spans across APAC and the Middle East consumer and enterprise financial ecosystems -payments, cards, merchant acquiring, lending, remittances and emerging virtual asset businesses. Mashreq continues to be a regional powerhouse in payments and lending - processing over $50Bn in FX volumes and asset books growing over 3X in 5 years. As the leader of Mashreq’s agile payments and consumer lending tribe, I focus on transforming bold ideas into real-world impact. We are reimagining the way money moves across the region and building next-generation products that unlock growth for consumers,

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