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Head of Strategy and Content
Simon Taylor is a Strategic Advisor at Sardine, where he helps shape the company’s content strategy. He previously served as the company’s Head of Content. He is best known as the creator of the Fintech Brainfood newsletter, one of the most widely read publications in financial technology, and as Co-founder of 11:FS, where he launched the popular Fintech Insider podcast and built the Ventures practice advising global banks, fintechs, and regulators.
Earlier in his career, Simon was VP of Blockchain R&D at Barclays, where he led some of the industry’s first enterprise blockchain initiatives, and VP of Mobile Delivery, overseeing mobile banking and payments. He also co-founded Global Digital Finance (GDF), an industry body setting global standards for digital assets.
Before Barclays, Simon worked at TSYS as an Innovation Lead, managing several high-profile payments projects, and began his career at BT Global Services as a Business Analyst, where he implemented the Software Development Lifecycle across the Infrastructure business and delivered significant efficiency improvements.
Simon studied Software Engineering at Bradford College, earning an HND degree.
Articles by Simon Taylor
How Sardine delivers a first-class KYC onboarding experience
How data breaches are making it harder to trust traditional KYC results
How Raise reduced chargebacks and manual reviews with Sardine
Announcing Sardine's new compliance AI Agents for KYC, sanctions, and merchant risk
Key lessons from sanctions screening nightmares
Five ways advanced sanctions screening pays for itself
Automate enhanced due diligence checks with Sardine
Revenue Attach Rate: A New Metric for Fraud ROI Calculation
How Novo achieves world-class fraud prevention and chargeback performance with Sardine
Safeguarding Neobanks: Fraud Prevention Tools & Comprehensive Techniques
Interview with Karisse Hendrick, Fraudology
Do you Know Your Seller (KYS?) - Seller Check for Marketplaces
How to Detect Marketplace Fraud: Key Strategies
How Hackers Are Targeting B2B Payments with Remote Access Tools
Boost Checkout Conversion by Screening for Fraud Pre-Authorization
Fraud vs Scam: What's the Difference? Prevent Fraud in Your Business
Machine Learning Feature Store for Fraud and Compliance
October 2023 Roundup - All risk problems are data problems
Stopping e-commerce returns fraud in its tracks
The power of data enrichment in fraud and AML
Increase transaction approval with Real-time Merchant Data
August 2023 Roundup: How scammers are using custom AI tools for fraud
How real-time transaction monitoring improves AML compliance
Solving the rise of Global e-commerce fraud and chargebacks
How to protect customers from ChatGPT-Driven Scams
Device Intelligence & Behavior Biometrics work better together
VPN Detection for SMS Pumping
How Card Not Present (CNP) Fraud is changing
Fighting Friendly Fraud
Sardine achieves 314b Designation from FinCEN
How to Protect customers from AI-Driven Romance Scams
Detect more Account Takeover (ATO) with Sardine
Blockchain and Sardine are redefining partnerships
Global Workers need better Global Payouts
Scam Prevention: Detecting elderly scams in new payment methods
Sardine partners with 1inch
Sardine’s self-care day 2022
Fraud and Payments are two sides of the same coin with Blockchain.com & Sardine
The safest way into web3 with Juno and Sardine
Sardine delivers Instant Bank ACH for MetaMask users in the US
Faster Onboarding and Higher Conversion with Magic and Sardine
