Nicole Sandler

Nicole is the Head of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at the Centre for Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) and is Executive in Residence at Global Digital Finance (GDF). Prior to this she was the Head of Digital Policy at Barclays.

She is a digital policy expert who drives the policy engagement on digital regulation and initiatives including AI and DLT use cases and regularly engages with policymakers globally. Further, she participates in various regulatory and policy forums and industry groups. For example, Nicole sat on the European Commission’s Expert Group on Regulatory Obstacles to Financial Innovation and chairs the GDF Digital Finance Forum. In addition, she presented on AI at the EC FinTech Lab and represented Barclays at both the Crypto-asset and Blockchain roundtable and Digital Identity roundtable at the European Parliament.  

Nicole regularly speaks on panels, presents at conferences and universities, has articles published and focuses on upskilling and diversity initiatives. She was named in the Financial News ‘Top 20 Most Influential Women in Digital Assets’, FinTech Magazine ‘Top 100 Women in FinTech 2022’, the City Am Crypto Am ‘Industry Personality of the Year 2022’, Re.Work ‘Top 30 Women in Fintech’ 2021, the ‘Influencer of the Year’ at the NY Finovate Awards 2019 and the ‘Most Influential Women in FinTech Regulation – UK’ at the Wealth and Finance Awards 2019.