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Goldman Sachs CEO, left for Stripe, joins another fintech in Singapore
In the early days of fintech, you often had to choose between someone with senior experience in traditional finance and senior experience in a fintech. The most recent hire by $10 billion fintech Wise proves that, today, you can have it both ways.
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Arvind Guruprasad joins Essay in Singapore as Head of Risk for APAC. You spent the last two years at another payments giant, Band: He initially joined as global head of financial risk management, and then became one APAC treasury and financial risk manager.
Most of Guruprasad’s career, however, was spent at Goldman Sachs. He joined as a senior analyst in New York in the mid-2000s, before earning an MBA and returning as an associate in the Bangalore office. He spent the next ten years rising to MD and was most recently responsible for global risk engineering liquidity risk analysis and reporting.
Stripe has been hiring heavily globally in 2024, but Singapore hasn’t been the focus yet, with just 20 current employees job openings. Wise, despite a smaller headcount globally, appears to have more employees in Singapore. It has one fewer job in the city despite having less than half the total number of open jobs. They added both fintechs software engineering interns in their Singapore offices last month, however.
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