Varlam Ebanoidze
Head of FinTech Development & Innovation Office, National Bank of Georgia
Varlam has 19 years of professional experience with a focus on central banking and commercial banking digitalization.
He spent the first half of his professional life at banks’ internal audit, Operational/Cyber Risk and Compliance domains. In the second half of his professional life, he re-invented and developed himself towards a FinTech innovator and change facilitator.
Prior to joining the National Bank of Georgia (NBG) where my focus is a Countrywide FinTech, Open Finance strategy and regulatory design, I held senior positions at banks in Georgia and in Ukraine, and served on the management board of a leading retail bank (Liberty) in Georgia.
Varlam is passionate about the Strategic Transformation of Central Bank to “Fit” the new paradigm of Open Finance.
Master’s degree from London Business School (LBS) specialized in Strategy and Leadership, combined with the domain experience allows me to see and suggest the efficient digitization strategies through industry development lenses.
Most recently, the NBG came up with the concept of “FinTech in Georgia; building on the Middle Corridor Momentum”.
