Meet Shamir Karkal, a software engineer turned finance and banking expert.
Shamir and I met at BBVA when he served as head of Open APIs. Before BVAA, he co-founded Simple, the pioneer of digital banking. Today, he is the CEO of Sila, a company that provides APIs for fintechs to build products for the future of financial services.
By using advanced APIs and distributed ledger technology, Shamir and his team are ushering in a new wave of global fintech innovation, or Finnovation.