Miles Paschini

CEO

Spearfish, South Dakota, United States24 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in fintech leadership.
Expert in payment processing and regulatory compliance.
Proven track record in founding and scaling startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech executive with deep expertise in payment systems and regulatory compliance.

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Skills

Core Skills

BankingPayment Services

Other Skills

Business StrategyRegulatory ComplianceComplianceMobile BankingTransaction ProcessingVenture FinancingSoftware DevelopmentPaymentsPrepaidMerchant AcquiringIssuingDebit CardsCredit CardsEntrepreneurshipE-commerce

About

More than twenty years as an entrepreneur and C-level executive with experience, founding, managing, operating and financing start up and growth stage companies in the banking and payments sectors. Extensive experience in various aspects of the payment processing industry including banking, card issuing, acquiring, electronic money issuance, remittance and cash loading networks. Hands on management and operating experience with multi-national teams focused on strategy, business development and product solutions. Specialties: * Innovation and strategy * Transaction processing systems (debit, stored value, cash loading and remittance) * Compliance and regulatory matters related banking, electronic money, card issuing, KYC and AML regulations * Venture financing, transaction structures, M&A * Product/Software development and design for high scale processing systems * Commercial agreements with banks, associations and processors * Licensing with regulatory bodies and associations

Experience

Fv bank

Chief Executive Officer

Oct 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · Puerto Rico

FV Bank International is a digital only bank serving fintech, SME's and international private clients.

Payment ServicesBankingBusiness StrategyRegulatory Compliance

B21 limited

Investor and Director

Mar 2018 – Dec 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Gibraltar

B21 is a fintech company headquartered in Gibraltar and is the developer of a personal wealth management software exclusively for digital assets. B21 is a mobile focused investment platform that enables retail investors to create their own portfolio of digital assets. B21 users can easily Invest, Earn and Spend digital assets.

Payglobal limited

Investor and Director

Feb 2018 – Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 1 mo · United Kingdom

Pay Global is a fintech company who is a regulated EMD agent and emoney issuer developing innovative global payment solutions.

Wave crest group

3 roles

Chief Revenue Officer

Aug 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Group President

Dec 2012 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Wave Crest Group Limited is an enterprise platform technology company that provides next generation payment solutions and services to medium to large global corporations. We consistently innovate to provide payment solutions that are ground-breaking and make the most of the ever growing and changing mobile, internet and social space. We are a licensed financial institution and principal member of Visa and MasterCard.
As Group President I am responsible for managing a multinational, cross functional team including Business Development, Product Solutions, Project Delivery, Marketing and Legal.

Chief Operating Officer

Feb 2009 – Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Wave Crest Group Limited is an enterprise platform technology company that provides next generation payment solutions and services to medium to large global corporations. We consistently innovate to provide payment solutions that are ground-breaking and make the most of the ever growing and changing mobile, internet and social space.
As co-founder and COO I was responsible for the development of our first products from concept to production including every aspect of the value chain. I played a material role in building the company from zero employees to over 100 and securing several large corporate clients before moving on to Group President where I have taken on a greater client facing role.

Transact network limited

Managing Director

Sep 2007 – Aug 2008 · 11 mos · Gibraltar

Co-Founder of the first non-bank to receive an e-money license from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission. I prosecuted the company application with the regulator, obtained a principal MasterCard membership and designed the proprietary software application for stored value card management. Developed company compliance manuals, operating procedures and risk management tools.

Blackhawk network

Strategic Advisor to CEO

Sep 2006 – Sep 2007 · 1 yr · Pleasanton, California USA

Strategic Advisor to CEO and Executive Management team post acquisition of EWI Holdings.
Advised on M&A targets in Latin America, negotiated issuing agreements with banks and core processors for the implementation of a large scale prepaid card program inlcuding non-reloadable gift and re-loadable general spend cards.

Grupo libertad llc

Managing Partner

May 2006 – Present · 19 yrs 11 mos · International

Consulting and early stage investment firm specializing in electronic payments and eCommerce.

Ewi holdings, inc.

CEO and Chairman

Jan 2001 – Aug 2005 · 4 yrs 7 mos

EWI Holdings was a pioneer in developing pay in networks in the USA and Latin America with several patents in the area of prepaid pin generation and related payment technologies. The company's payment processing platform "PayGo" connected retailers and service providers using industry leading technology which authorized and settled payments for services such as mobile phone top ups, prepaid card loading and consumer payments in realtime. The company clients included Bank of America and IDT. The company was sold to Blackhawk Network a subsudiary of Safeway (SWY) in 2006.