Chryssi Chorafa

Chryssi is a highly motivated professional with a unique experience in financial services specialising in FinTech. Chryssi’s passion is to help design and build a financially inclusive, resilient and sustainable system for the benefit of society. She covers a breadth of professional experience ranging from regulation (FCA), risk management, global transactions payments, and treasury. Chryssi has consulted and implemented many treasury and risk analytics system projects for blue-chip companies across EMEA. Chryssi is a thought leader in the payments industry, the Founder and CEO of StarLiX, an innovative payment and compliance system to enable cross-border payments to developing countries. StarLiX is shortlisted for the FSTech Compliance/RegTech Award 2021, and has been accepted within the FCA Sandbox Cohort 7. She is also a Lecturer at London Institute of Banking and Finance specialising in Digital Technologies and FinTech. Chryssi has been recognised as a Senior Leader in the Women in FinTech Powerlist 2020 and is shortlisted for the Women in Payments EMEA Symposium Innovation Award 2021. She holds a first-class-honours BEng in Civil Engineering, and two MSc in Financial Mathematics from University of Warwick and Technology Entrepreneurship from UCL. She values personal development and life-long learning, and therefore, has undertaken numerous qualifications in Investment Advice (FCA), Risk Management (PRMIA), Data Science and ML (Mindstream AI), Blockchain (UCL CBT), Innovation (MIT). Chryssi is an Industry Associate at UCL Centre of Blockchain Technologies, working part time with Kalgera on financial vulnerability for individuals and volunteers as a mentor for a non-profit (Madrinha Trust) and as a Governor at a North London school (Governors for Schools).