Anthony is
Barclays Ventures’ Director of Emerging Technology and leads the focus to
understand and deliver experiments, pilots and new products in the areas where
emerging technologies converge and create new business models. Acknowledged by
the Bank of England for his insight, Anthony has been regularly advising
Governments and Regulators globally on the subject of new technologies and
their potential for disruption over the last five years.
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With a career of
over a decade in financial services, Anthony has worked in various roles across
the retail network and back office, becoming a data analyst and one of the
first to use big data technologies at Barclays. Specializing in Data, Anthony
was one of the first to spot the potential of Blockchain technology at Barclays
and played a major role in positioning Barclays as a global leader in the
space. Barclays became a founder member of the Blockchain consortium R3 and has
progressed a number of explorations with them. In addition Barclays is the
first UK bank to offer accounts to blockchain companies, notably including
Circle Internet Financial in the first quarter of 2016 and completed the first
live trade finance customer transaction on blockchain technology with WAVE in
September 2016. After some work exploring custody with BNY Mellon in early
2018, Anthony returned to join the newly formed BUK Ventures arm of Barclays
which shares his passion for customer focused product innovation.
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