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Dr. Kimmo Soramaki
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
FNA
Dr Kimmo Soramäki is the Founder and CEO of FNA, which builds AI-powered infrastructure for safer and more efficient financial systems. FNA's technology is used by over 30 central banks and financial authorities, as well as global banks, to oversee systemic risk, optimise liquidity, and combat fraud.
Kimmo has worked in and with central banks for almost 30 years. He began at the Bank of Finland in 1997, where he developed the payment system simulator the Bank distributes to this day. He worked at the European Central Bank during the euro changeover, and at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of England through the global financial crisis. His research has helped establish network analysis as a supervisory discipline, and he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Network Theory in Finance.
Kimmo serves on the advisory board of the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and contributes to BIS, IMF, World Bank, and G20 forums on payments, fraud, and financial stability.
He holds a Doctor of Science in Operations Research from Aalto University in Helsinki.
Speaking at the summit
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3:30–5:00pmSun 15 NovRoundtableOpen
Phsar - Finance That Reaches People
The Trust Layer: Identity, Data and Consumer Protection in Digital Finance
About this session
Interoperability depends on more than connecting payment systems. Countries must also trust the identities being verified, the data being exchanged and the institutions carrying responsibility when something fails. Cross-border finance exposes differences in digital identity, KYC, AML/CFT, cybersecurity, privacy and liability frameworks that may be manageable domestically but become serious risks once systems connect. The roundtable focuses on the minimum trust architecture required before two financial ecosystems can interoperate safely. It asks what must be mutually recognised, what data should remain under national control, how users can be verified across jurisdictions and where liability should sit when a cross-border transaction or security control fails.
