top of page
Koen Vanderhoydonk

Koen Vanderhoydonk

Admin

Managing Editor

More actions

Profile

Join date: Dec 18, 2024

About

Founder, FinanceX Magazine | Author | Podcast Host | Public Speaker

Koen Vanderhoydonk is the founder of FinanceX Magazine, which he launched in 2024 to bring monthly stories and insights from across the global financial industry to a worldwide audience. As a recognised FinTech and RegTech influencer with a sizeable international following, Koen has built a reputation for translating complex developments in banking, regulation, and innovation into clear, useful perspectives for industry professionals.

He is the author of The RegTech: BlackBook, first published in 2019 as the inaugural physical, collaboratively written RegTech book co-authored with specialists from around the world. He released the sequel in 2022, further cementing his position as one of the leading voices documenting the evolution of regulatory technology.

Beyond the page, Koen hosts The Connector podcast, where he holds ongoing conversations with influential figures and companies shaping the financial industry, frequently recording live from major conferences across the globe. As a sought-after public speaker, he regularly takes the stage at international FinTech and RegTech events, sharing insights drawn from more than 25 years of experience in the global financial landscape and his work bridging banks, regulators, and scaling B2B FinTechs through The Connector, the ecosystem he founded in 2022.

Posts (525)

Oct 6, 2026 ∙ 4 min
Compute Prepayment Facility Reaches $250m as K8 Capital Backs Liquid Compute
Liquid Compute has arranged a $250m compute prepayment facility with K8 Capital, giving buyers of AI computing capacity a way to finance the deposits operators demand before delivery instead of funding them from equity. A buyer draws credit as it signs forward contracts for capacity, and each draw is secured against the prepaid capacity and checked by Liquid Compute before the money moves. The pitch rests on a simple problem that has grown with the AI buildout. Operators want large...
3
0
Oct 6, 2026 ∙ 4 min
Confide Launches Agentic GRC Platform to Govern People and AI Agents
Confide, the governance software company founded by Wirecard whistleblower Pav Gill, has launched an agentic GRC platform that pulls governance, risk and compliance into a single system and extends the same oversight to the AI agents now working alongside compliance teams. The product replaces the patchwork of separate tools most organisations run for case management, policy, risk and audit, and logs every action, whether taken by a person or an agent, in one defensible audit trail. The pitch...
5
0
Oct 6, 2026 ∙ 5 min
DTCC Flips the Switch: Wall Street's Settlement Plumbing Is Now, Officially, Tokenised
The world's biggest post-trade utility has moved tokenisation from pilot to production. As of this week, tokenised Treasuries, equities and ETFs are not a thought experiment, they are an operating service, and the rest of the market has run out of excuses. For almost a decade, "tokenisation of real-world assets" was the fintech conference equivalent of a treadmill: a lot of effort, no actual distance covered. That changed in a hurry over the last seven days. The Depository Trust & Clearing...
15
0
bottom of page