Fintech at Scale: Building Product Organisations in Regulated, Fast-Growth Environments
Fintech at Scale: Building Product Organisations in Regulated, Fast-Growth Environments
Moderator: Conor Begley
Panelists
Bart Heideman — Head of Product, Payouts, FX & Marketplaces @ Stripe | Global Money Movement
Brian Dwyer — Product Lead, Wayflyer
Dave Power — Director of Innovation Ecosystem, Fidelity Centre for Applied Technology (FCAT)
Fourth panelist to be confirmed
Session Overview
Fintech continues to sit at the intersection of innovation, regulation, customer trust and rapid scale. Building product organisations in this environment presents unique challenges — balancing speed with governance, experimentation with resilience, and customer-centricity with increasingly complex infrastructure and compliance demands.
This panel brings together leaders from across the fintech ecosystem spanning global payments infrastructure, embedded finance, innovation labs and high-growth scaling fintechs to discuss what modern product leadership looks like in highly regulated and fast-moving environments.
The discussion will explore how fintech organisations are evolving product strategy, team structures and operating models in response to AI, changing customer expectations, regulation, and the growing complexity of global financial systems.
Discussion Themes
Scaling product organisations in fintech
Balancing regulation and innovation
AI adoption in financial services products
Building customer trust in digital financial ecosystems
Product leadership in high-growth environments
Operating across global infrastructure and compliance frameworks
Lessons from scaling fintech platforms internationally
The future of fintech product management
Why This Session Will Be Interesting
The panel combines perspectives from:
A global financial infrastructure leader at Stripe
One of Ireland’s leading scaling fintechs in Wayflyer
A leading innovation ecosystem and applied technology organisation through FCAT
An additional industry voice to broaden the discussion further