FinBigTech Global — Boutique Advisory in Fintech, Payments & Governance

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.

Finance Transformation

eBay · Multi-market · 7 years

Full-stack finance and payments transformation across a ~$1B global portfolio — ERP migration, Order-to-Cash redesign, and regulatory operations at scale.

$1.5Moperational savings

45%client satisfaction uplift

100%data integrity on migration

Payments Transformation

Naspers / OLX · 20+ entities · Five continents

Order-to-Cash and payments transformation across 20+ legal entities under IFRS15 — simultaneous regulatory, operational, and commercial alignment across five continents.

25%cash collection improvement

40%dispute reduction

30%cost reduction

EU Regulatory Readiness

Booking.com · 30+ EEA markets · EMI licensing

Led the e-money licensing programme across 30+ European Economic Area markets — coordinating product, legal, compliance, and regulatory workstreams to establish the platform’s European payments infrastructure.

30+EEA markets licensed

EMIlicence achieved

Supervisory Governance

Confidential · Core banking transformation

Supervisory Board mandate on a core mobile banking implementation — identified critical contract gaps, D&O exposure, and established the governance frameworks and Technology & Innovation Committee required for sound board oversight.

SBoversight mandate

TICcommittee established

Board Governance

IFC & FMO networks · Growth markets

Nominee Director representation across the IFC and FMO development finance networks — independent governance and strategic counsel for regulated financial institutions in emerging markets.

IFCnominee director

FMOnominee director

Global Credibility

Experience built inside the organisations that shaped global platform finance.

eBay Classifieds Group — Platforms & Marketplaces

eBay eBay Classifieds Group Marktplaats Kijiji OLX mobile.de Gumtree 2dehands / 2ememain Bilbasen alaMaula Close5 Quikr

Naspers / Prosus — International Platform Group

Naspers Prosus AutoTrader Autovit.ro Imovirtual Obido Otodom Otomoto Property24 StandVirtual Storia.ro WeBuyAnyCar

Booking Holdings — Global Travel

Booking.com Booking Holdings Priceline KAYAK Agoda Rentalcars.com OpenTable

Public & Impact Finance — Board & Governance

IFC FMO USAID GIFT Think Tank PayGO StealthWrks GreenHouse Capital

Selected experience; representative, not exhaustive.

Global Presence

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

Europe

Amsterdam · London · Brussels

Conferences, policy roundtables, and board mandates across the EU regulatory landscape.

Middle East

Dubai · Riyadh · Abu Dhabi

Panel speaker and roundtable participant across the region's leading fintech and digital finance summits.

Asia Pacific

Tokyo · Singapore · Hong Kong

Speaker at Elevandi/MAS-organised forums, HKU FinTech Day, and AsiaGlobal Fellows, University of Hong Kong.

North America

Boston · New York

Harvard Business School alumna and participant in HBS Women on Boards and IFC Nominee Directors Network.

Africa

Nairobi · Accra · Lagos

Board governance and venture mentorship through IFC, FMO, USAID, and leading African venture builders.

CIS & Growth Markets

Caucasus · Central Asia · Southeast Asia

Financial institution governance, inclusion mandates, and ecosystem development across emerging corridors.

30+

Markets

Continents

70+

Countries via GIFT

20+

Years experience

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The Current Environment

The questions boards are now required to answer have changed fundamentally.

DORA & Regulatory Enforcement

DORA's first supervisory cycle is underway. ICT contracts, incident reporting, and third-party governance are now under active audit — not preparation.

AI & Cyber in the Boardroom

Boards are accountable for AI risk, cyber resilience, and technology governance — not as future considerations, but as present fiduciary obligations.

Agentic Payments & Digital Infrastructure

Agentic AI is entering payment flows. Platforms and banks that lack the governance architecture to oversee autonomous systems face compounding regulatory and operational exposure.

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 brings that operating experience directly into the boardroom — as a Supervisory Board Member at a regulated financial institution 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.

Harvard Business School Supervisory Board Member IFC & FMO Nominee Director GIFT Think Tank, Chairwoman SER Topvrouwen, Netherlands

Jil Ebanoidze — Founding Principal, FinBigTech