More about Hari Sivan
Hari co-founded SOCASH and led the team to create a multi-country scaled distribution network blending retail and banking services.
This network takes financial services closer to where customers are and enables paradigm shift in scale with efficient unit economics.
Headquartered in Singapore, SOCASH counted global banks & financial institutions across the region including DBS/POSB, Standard Chartered, ICBC,OCBC,JCB, CIMB & more deploying its cash and digital payment solutions. SOCASH was recently acquired by global payment unicorn Nium.
Hari is passionate about everything in technology, now tinkering with interesting problems in financial services, blockchain driven settlement systems, product development and risk management.
This network takes financial services closer to where customers are and enables paradigm shift in scale with efficient unit economics.
Headquartered in Singapore, SOCASH counted global banks & financial institutions across the region including DBS/POSB, Standard Chartered, ICBC,OCBC,JCB, CIMB & more deploying its cash and digital payment solutions. SOCASH was recently acquired by global payment unicorn Nium.
Hari is passionate about everything in technology, now tinkering with interesting problems in financial services, blockchain driven settlement systems, product development and risk management.
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