Banked announces new appointments to the team.

We are delighted to welcome some new additions to the Banked team. 

We’re very happy to welcome two new members to the Banked management team: Nick Thomson and Lisa Scott, who have joined the business as Chief Product Officer and Chief Marketing Officer respectively.

Nick Thomson.

Nick joins us from Checkout.com, where as Head of Product he led the company’s product and engineering teams from a single product to a multi-product proposition. He comes with a wealth of other FinTech experience as Head of Product at Mobile Guardian and One Africa Media as well as payments expertise from Visa and PayU. Nick will drive our modular product set to be a best in class, end to end solution with a specific focus on simplicity and ease of use.

Lisa Scott.

Lisa joins us with an extensive payments experience from PayPal, leading Product Marketing for the core PayPal markets and championing the customer in the development and launch of a wide range of products and experiences. Lisa has the global experience which will help Banked scale across markets in 2021 and bring the value proposition to life for our customers. 

Maya Kumar.

In addition we welcome Maya Kumar as VP Partnerships. She comes with wide ranging partnerships experience across a diverse range of organisations including ClearBank, N26 and Luno and is leading our activities building out our partnerships portfolio. 

2021 looks to be a transformative year for us. We are launching a number of new product features in the next quarter, including programmable payment links, payouts, transfers, rewards, and the start of our global expansion in order to build out our global payments network. We are seeing rising interest in the industry around using direct bank payments as a fast, efficient and cost effective way of taking and making payments and Banked’s focus is on how we can help create value for businesses and consumers with this capability.