FLORIAN WAHL|
PRODUCT LEADER
Engineer by trade, fintech geek by passion. I lead Product Strategy at Akoya, where I focus on open finance and innovation. With almost a decade in financial services — spanning consulting, digital transformation, and product — I'm an active voice in the industry through conference talks, panels, and writing.
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UPCOMING
Talks & Panels
Can data aggregators power the next wave of smarter credit?
Fintech Meetup · Las Vegas
Session details →Beyond APIs: The Strategic Value of Data Out in Open Finance
Nacha Payments 2026 · San Diego
Session details →How DDA Tokenization Protects FIs and Empowers Consumers in the Era of Open Banking
Nacha Payments 2026 · San Diego
Session details →THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Articles, Papers & Conference Talks
Tokenization in Fintech: One Word, Four Domains
Open Banking in the US: Navigating Compliance Under the CFPB's 1033 Rule
OpenFinity EXPO
Industry Collaboration on DDA Payment Tokens
Nacha's Smarter Faster Payments 2024
Driving Adoption of Open Finance in the Commercial Banking sector
FDX Global Summit
Revolutionizing Payments: Improving Consumer Adoption of A2A
Link Money's Payments Innovation Summit
Instant account verification with Akoya
The future of payments is instant
EXPERIENCE
Career Timeline
HEAD OF PRODUCT STRATEGY
CurrentLeading the Product Strategy team in charge of our multi-year strategy, roadmap, product ops, pricing, commercialization, competitive intelligence, and product management excellence processes.
PRODUCT MANAGER
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022Managed Akoya's core API products. SME for various use cases: payments enablement, money movement, account number tokenization, and account ownership validation.
BUSINESS STRATEGY & EXECUTION MANAGER
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022Conducted market research, competitive analysis, and client interviews. Standardized pricing models. Gathered functional and technical requirements for the development of Akoya's core data access products.
GLOBAL AWS ALLIANCE LEAD, FINANCIAL SERVICES
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021Managed global partnership between AWS and Capgemini Financial Services across 80+ accounts through all geographies.
MANAGER
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020Program managed the delivery of a 6-week technology and operations readiness assessment for a leading transaction bank.
SENIOR CONSULTANT (AND PREVIOUS ROLES)
Aug 2017 - Mar 2020Various consulting positions in open banking, digital transformation, fintech, and blockchain.
CO-FOUNDER
Sep 2016 - Dec 2017Defined business plan, business model, and marketing strategy for the product introduction and the startup.