FinTech Connect 2024

December 04 - 05, 2024

ExCeL London

Sergio Signoretti

CEO Advisor and Strategic Advisor on Finance and Payments lasminute.com

60 years old, Sergio Signoretti is a CEO Advisor and a Strategic Advisor on Finance and Payments.

For more than 6 years he has been CFO and Head of Payments at lastminute.com group (September 2017- April 2024), where he has managed Finance (Admin, Planning and Control,Treasury, Corporate Development), Procurement and Process Improvements and Payments.

As Head of Payments he has been responsible for managing processing, acquiring and issuing B2B and B2C, on top of the relations with the international payment schemes.

He has an extensive experience in the Payments industry as CEO of CartaLis ELMI (2007-2014, IGT-Lottomatica group) having managed the startup and development of the second issuer of prepaid payment cards in Italy with responsibility for business and commercial development, IT and operations, compliance, risk management, finance.

He has former experience in the gaming business , as CEO of Lottomatica Videolot Rete (2004-2007) , managing the startup and development of the gaming machines business in Italy for IGT- Lottomatica Group.

Formerly, he has covered positions as Head of planning and control in diversified multinational contexts (manufacturing,telco,gaming) among which Ominitel Vodafone (1996-1999) Blu (1999-2002) and Lottomatica (2002-2004).

Formerly Senior Advisor for ArthurDLittle and independent advisor (2014-2017) and Angel Investor member of Italian Angels for Growth, an association of Italian and foreign investors in startups capital ventures.

Chartered accountant and Auditor, graduated in Economics at the State University in Rome in 1988.


Day 1 - Wednesday 4th December

2:50 PM How is embedded finance changing the payments landscape?

• How are more Open APIs driving innovation?

• What is the customer/client journey? What impact has BNPL had on the payments journey? 

• What are the challenges around integration and interoperability?

• Who wins in an embedded world; the consumer, the merchant, the bank or the PSP?

• Is BNPL where embedded finance meets embedded lending?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Sergio.

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