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FinTech and Financial Compliance Researcher

Bryan Zheng Zhang is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, and co-founder of Financial Innovation for Impact. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the UK Financial Conduct Authority since 2024, sitting on its Board Risk Committee and Audit Committee.

Zhang has led and co-authored over 50 regional and global fintech market and regulatory reports. His commentary has appeared in articles from a number of media outlets, including the BBC, the Financial Times, and City A.M..

He is a member of the Bank of England's CBDC Engagement Forum, the OECD's Steering Group on SME & Entrepreneurship Finance, the Dubai International Financial Centre's Innovation Panel, and a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. Additionally, he co-chairs the Future of Global FinTech initiative in partnership with the World Economic Forum.

In 2022, he was appointed by the Payment Systems Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority as the Independent Chair of a Strategic Working Group to help shape the future development of Open Banking in the United Kingdom

Bryan's academic background includes training in Economic Geography and Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Oxford.


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  2. HM Treasury and Bim Afolami MP,(2024), New appointment to Financial Conduct Authority board announced, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-appointment-to-financial-conduct-authority-board-announced
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  14. The Bretton Woods Committee, (2023), Bryan Zhang, https://www.brettonwoods.org/article/bryan-zhang
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  20. Centre for Science and Policy, Retrieved 22/12/2024, Bryan Zheng Zhang, https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/bryan-zheng-zhang/
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