Fintech Decision Makers
A verified directory of 467 people who approve vendor spend inside banks, processors and fintechs — with the committee, the compliance surface and the renewal window that decide whether a deal closes. Preview free, unlock the full list with a free Articuler account.
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- 467
- Fintech decision makers
- 156
- Can sign without committee
- 33%
- Inside a renewal window
- 71%
- Require SOC 2 before pilot
Verified in the last 30 days
No vendor board required
Contract expiring within 6 months
Not just before signature
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Wilhelmina Osei-Cavendish
SVP Vendor Management · Thornaby Federal
Pittsburgh, PA
Chairs the vendor committee; two contracts up for renewal in Q1.
- Bank or credit union
- Needs vendor committee
- Bank-chartered / OCC
- Renewal window
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Anselm Ferreira-Wojcik
Head of Payments Ops · Calverton Processing
Omaha, NE
Signs alone up to $250K; replaced a reconciliation vendor in six weeks last year.
- Payments processor
- Signs alone
- PCI-DSS in scope
- Fast mover
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Zainab Lindholm-Achebe
Director of Risk Technology · Merrowfield Bank
Charlotte, NC
Needs board sign-off for anything touching the core; two pilots blocked this year.
- Bank or credit union
- Needs board or regulator sign-off
- Bank-chartered / OCC
- Blocked pilots
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Rutger Okonjo-Bellandi
VP Engineering · Sedgemoor Pay
Denver, CO
Fintech scale-up; buys tooling without procurement but demands SOC 2 upfront.
- Fintech scale-up
- Signs alone
- SOC 2 only
- Evidence-first
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Cressida Mwangi-Halvorsen
Chief Operating Officer · Alderbury Mutual
Hartford, CT
Recommends only; the actual authority sits with a parent group in another state.
- Insurer
- Recommends only
- SOC 2 only
- Influencer
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Émile Nakagawa-Prosser
Head of Product Integrations · Widdrington Core
Dallas, TX
Gates which fintech tools 400 downstream banks can adopt.
- Core banking vendor
- Needs vendor committee
- State-regulated (MTL)
- High leverage
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Frequently asked questions
- Why is "can sign without committee" the headline number?
- Because in regulated finance the committee is the deal. 156 of 467 can authorise a vendor alone; the other 311 route through a vendor management board that meets monthly or quarterly. A pipeline forecast built without knowing which group a contact belongs to is a forecast built on nothing.
- What is a vendor risk review and how long does it take?
- A formal assessment of a supplier's security, financial stability and concentration risk, mandated for anyone touching a bank's systems. For the 122 people at bank-chartered institutions it typically runs eight to sixteen weeks and cannot be shortened by enthusiasm from the buyer. 71% require SOC 2 before a *pilot*, not before signature — meaning no evidence, no trial.
- Why does the renewal window matter more here than elsewhere?
- Regulated institutions rarely run parallel vendors, so displacement only happens at renewal. 33% have a contract expiring within six months — that cohort is reachable now, and the rest are effectively unreachable until their window opens regardless of how good the product is.
- How is this different from the fintech executives directory?
- Overlapping populations, opposite intent. An executive there owns a function and is usually building. A decision maker here is evaluating and buying, and is frequently more junior — a VP of Vendor Management outranks a CTO in a procurement conversation and appears in this list rather than that one.
- Do core banking vendors belong in a fintech directory?
- The 48 here buy heavily and gate what thousands of downstream banks can adopt, so excluding them removes the most leveraged buyer in the sector. If you sell to banks directly they are competitors; if you sell infrastructure they are the shortest path to distribution.
- What is the single biggest mistake in outreach to this group?
- Leading with speed. Fast deployment is a liability signal to someone whose job is managing concentration risk and audit exposure. The 174 who need a vendor committee respond to evidence they can forward — an SOC 2 report, a reference at a peer institution — not to a promise of two-week onboarding.