On November 29th, Wizz Financial, a leading global fintech company specializing in cross-border payments announced it had appointed Anton Pasiechnikov as its new Chief Executive Officer. Pasiechnikov joins the company after previously serving as Revolut’s CIO.
Pasiechnikov has more than 25 years of experience in the financial sector, scaling companies and helping to develop international organizations. He has deep expertise in managing market risks and maintaining a global high-volume hedging platform for foreign exchange, most recently as Chief Investment Officer of Revolut. In that role, he designed investment infrastructure and scaled up global financial functions for the company. He previously served in a variety of roles at Credit Suisse and Renaissance Capital.
“Anton brings an important dimension of experience to our company and will play an important role as we continue to build the largest fintech in the MENA region and serve more than 20 million customers,” said Wizz Financial Co-Founder and Chairman Amir Nagammy. “His extensive financial background and business development skills will help build the leading technology payment platform for the MENA region, Africa and India.”
Wizz Financial was founded by Amir Nagammy and Prism Group AG in 2021, through a merger and re-branding of several Prism Group entities. Wizz Financial is the largest remittance services and currency exchange group in the MENA region. The company specializes in cross-border payments, foreign exchange, micro-lending, digital wallets, and payment technology, and has acquired some of the most important brands in the market, including XpressMoney and BFC Group. Wizz Financial is slated to be a global financial powerhouse, with 1,500 corporate and institutional clients in over 30 countries and upwards of 200,000 locations worldwide.
Wizz Financial is a subsidiary of Prism Group AG in partnership with Royal Strategic Partners. Prism is a private equity firm that leverages the potential of disruptive technologies to transform traditional business models. The company is headquartered in Switzerland with offices in the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, providing a geographic distribution that provides an in-depth knowledge of the developments and key players in regional and international markets that drive groundbreaking innovation.
