Expert on
Innovation,
Fintech, AI & China
The go-to voice on Asia’s FinTech revolution, based in Shanghai for over 16 years and carrying the message worldwide. Richard works with clients across keynotes, corporate events, panels, video, consulting and corporate boards. The East-West perspective that no one else can offer.
2
Best selling Books
#3 ranked
Linkedin influencer china
16+
Years in Asia
Two decades on the ground where finance met its future.
He is the world’s leading Western expert on China’s CBDC and the only Western fintech influencer who actually lives in China.
Based in Shanghai for 16 years with twenty years in investment banking and a career heading fintech teams at IBM, Rich covers fintech and AI from the ground where it’s happening fastest.
Ranked Favikon No. 3 LinkedIn influencer in China, No. 19 fintech influencer in the US, and Onalytica No. 16 for Artificial Intelligence, Rich is an independent consultant whose views are widely sought by international media and private clients.
Three ways to bring the story to your audience.
Rich works with clients across keynotes, corporate events, panels, video, consulting and corporate boards.
Books
The Future of Banking
A map of the reinvention of the bank branch in a digital-first era — why place, trust and advice will own the relationship layer digital channels alone can’t reach.
China’s Digital Currency Revolution
The definitive guide to China’s Digital Yuan and the global shift to CBDC — what every institution must do to thrive in the cashless future that is already here.
Behind the Scenes of Working Labs
An operating playbook for the labs that actually deliver — funding, governance, talent and metrics that separate labs that ship from labs that stall.