Name: Ms. Ananda Kautz
Email: ananda.kautz@abbl.lu
Designation: Head of Innovation, Digital Banking and Payments & Member of the Management Committee
Company: ABBL
About
Ananda has a Business Administration degree from ESSEC (France) and Concordia University (Canada), a Master’s degree from Université Paris Dauphine (France) and a certification on Financial Technologies and Cryptocurrencies from INSEAD.
Ananda moved to Luxembourg in 2006 to join PwC, where she contributed to financial center studies and advisory projects as a consultant. She then joined ING, where she took different roles, including management position, in a variety of areas such as strategy, digital transformation, data analytics, product management, corporate payments and cash management.
She joined the ABBL in August 2020 as Head of Innovation, Digital and Payments to support members in their digital transformation and to contribute in making Luxembourg a center of excellence in payments by supporting innovations in the payments ecosystem.
Ananda represents ABBL as a Board member at EPC (European Payments Council) and as a member of the Digital Strategy Group and Expert team on Digital Euro at EBF (European Banking Federation).