Global Boutique Advisory

Where platform expertise meets financial governance.

FinBigTech advises the boards and executive teams of global platforms, financial institutions, and regulators navigating the intersection of fintech, payments, digital assets, and institutional governance.

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Practice Areas

Senior advisory across the full governance and operating lifecycle.

Board Advisory & Governance
Independent counsel to Supervisory Boards and NEDs on fintech risk, technology oversight, and regulatory readiness.
Executive & CEO Advisory
Strategic counsel on payments architecture, platform-to-bank partnerships, digital-asset strategy, and operating-model design.
Regulatory Readiness
EMI and PSD2 licensing, DORA compliance, NIS2 readiness, and supervisory engagement — frameworks built to hold under real scrutiny.
Transformation Leadership
Interim and embedded senior leadership during payments, fintech, or operating-model transformation across multi-jurisdictional environments.
Ecosystem & Partnership Design
Structuring and governing fintech, bank, and platform partnerships that survive regulatory and commercial scrutiny.
PRINCIPAL-LED
Every engagement led by a senior principal. No delegation to junior teams.
MANDATE-SPECIFIC
Built around the specific situation. No standard frameworks applied to non-standard problems.
INDEPENDENT
Time-bound, conflict-checked, structured to complement existing leadership rather than duplicate it.
SELECTIVE
A limited number of concurrent engagements to ensure full senior attention to every client.
Selected Engagements

A track record built across platforms, institutions, and governance mandates.

Global Platform — Finance Transformation
eBay · Multi-market · 7 years
End-to-end finance and payments transformation across a ~$1B global portfolio — spanning ERP migration, Order-to-Cash redesign, and regulatory operations. Delivered 100% data integrity through system migration, $1.5M in operational savings, and a 45% year-on-year improvement in client satisfaction across 30,000 employees.
International Platform Group — Payments Transformation
Naspers/OLX · 20+ entities · Multi-continent
Payments and Order-to-Cash transformation across 20+ legal entities under IFRS15. The engagement spanned five continents and required simultaneous regulatory, operational, and commercial alignment — delivering cash collection improvement of 25%, dispute reduction of 40%, and 30% cost reduction across the group.
Global Travel Platform — EU Regulatory Readiness
Booking.com · 30+ EEA markets · EMI licensing
Led the cross-functional programme to achieve e-money licensing readiness across 30+ European Economic Area markets — coordinating product, legal, compliance, and regulatory workstreams. The engagement established the regulatory infrastructure required for the platform's European payments strategy.
Regulated Bank — Supervisory Governance
Confidential · Core banking transformation
Supervisory Board mandate overseeing a core mobile banking technology implementation. Our work identified critical gaps in vendor SLAs, an automatic-acceptance clause, and a retroactive D&O coverage exposure — and established the risk and control frameworks, RASCI accountability matrices, and Technology & Innovation Committee required for sound oversight.
Development Finance — Board Governance
IFC & FMO networks · Growth markets
Nominee Director representation within the IFC and FMO development finance networks — providing independent governance, accountability oversight, and strategic counsel across regulated financial institutions operating in emerging and growth markets.
Global Presence

Active across the markets where platform finance and institutional governance converge.

Our engagements span Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the CIS, and the Americas — across the institutions, regulators, and platforms that define the global financial infrastructure.

Platforms & Marketplaces

Digital commerce, travel, and classifieds platforms operating across 70+ countries — where payments, licensing, and regulatory complexity intersect at scale.

Banks & Fintech Infrastructure

Regulated banking institutions, payment networks, and fintech infrastructure across the EU, CIS, Gulf, and growth markets undergoing digital transformation.

Public & Impact Finance

Development finance institutions, regulators, and multilateral networks — where governance, ESG, and financial inclusion meet institutional accountability.

Selected experience; representative, not exhaustive.

The Current Environment

Regulatory enforcement has arrived. The window for preparation has closed.

DORA's first supervisory enforcement cycle is underway across the EU, with national Register of Information deadlines now binding on financial entities. The NIS2 transposition deadline arrives in October 2026. Supervisors are conducting detailed audits of ICT third-party contracts, incident-reporting practices, and governance frameworks with unprecedented rigor. For boards and executive teams managing fintech partnerships, vendor relationships, or platform transformation, the consequences of inadequate governance preparation are no longer theoretical — they are being actioned.

Our Expertise

Built at the intersection of operating experience and institutional governance.

Our advisory practice draws on direct experience inside the world's leading digital platforms and regulated financial institutions — across payments, licensing, governance, and large-scale transformation in over 30 markets globally. We advise platforms acquiring regulated capabilities, regulated banks becoming platform-driven, and the boards governing both.

eBay
Platform Operations
Finance transformation across a ~$1B global payments portfolio.
Booking.com
Regulatory
EU e-money licensing readiness across 30+ regulated markets.
Naspers/OLX
Transformation
Payments transformation across 20+ entities on five continents.
IFC & FMO
Development Finance
Board governance across regulated institutions in growth markets.
FinBigTech
Global Advisory
All of the above, applied to one client mandate at a time.
Our Team

Senior practitioners. No juniors. No generalists.

FinBigTech was founded by Jil Ebanoidze, a payments and fintech executive whose career spans senior leadership roles at eBay, Booking.com, and Prosus — building, transforming, and regulating the financial infrastructure of some of the world's largest digital platforms across 30+ markets on five continents.

She now brings that operating experience into the boardroom — as Supervisory Board Member of Crystal Bank and Nominee Director within the IFC and FMO networks. A Harvard Business School alumna, former Chairwoman of the Global Impact Fintech (GIFT) Think Tank (2020–2026), and member of SER Topvrouwen in the Netherlands, she advises at the intersection of platform speed and institutional accountability.

Jil Ebanoidze — Founding Principal, FinBigTech

We work with a limited number of clients. Engagements begin with a conversation.

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