About Rich Turrin
Rich headed fintech for IBM Cognitive Studios Singapore (IBM’s Innovation Lab) where he led a team that built innovative AI and analytic solutions. He also worked in IBM China where he led his team to win the prestigious “Risk Technology Product of the Year” award for his unique hybrid-cloud solution to risk analytics.
Rich was a banker for almost 20 years and a serial innovator throughout his career. Specializing in the design and innovation of new fixed-income products, he saw firsthand how technology, finance, and regulation come together to impact innovation. He made his career by thinking “out of the box” and uses his experience now as a Consultant to put fintech and AI to work for his clients.
As an experienced finance professional and systems builder, Rich understands what financial services companies need in order to thrive and how non-financial companies can benefit from advances in Fintech.
He enjoys building teams and systems that solve real problems.
Richard Turrin has had the unique experience of watching China’s fintech, payments and digital currency revolution from ground zero. It’s why Cashless may come as a shock to US regulators, bankers and media, because it clearly articulates just how significantly far behind they are. If you want to see the future of the cashless world, read this book
Rich’s social media posts and analysis on China’s AI, Fintech, and digital currency trends provide me always with great business insights. He has a clear view of how China’s innovation and regulation will affect domestic and global businesses for years to come.
Rich captures how digital currency can spin the flywheel for China’s new digital trade platforms. He shows how trade partners not only gain access to digital currency, but likewise to new digital services. This book stakes out how digital currency will change our world.”
CASHLESS