Alison Harwood

Head of London Branch and Vice-Head of Marketplace Banking, Varengold Bank

^{Alison heads the London branch of Hamburg-based Varengold Bank, a leading financier of European fintechs, and is Vice-Head of the bank’s Marketplace Banking division. In these roles she is responsible for developing Varengold’s fintech lending business across Western Europe. Widely connected within the European fintech ecosystem and the market for fintech financing, she is always on the lookout for bold and innovative new clients with customer-centric products or services that add significant value. Alison is an expert on the nuts & bolts of setting up and maintaining successful bank-fintech financing relationships and a regular speaker on podcasts and at industry events. Prior to joining Varengold in 2015, Alison worked in structured finance at Barclays and as a tax / financial services regulation lawyer at Linklaters.}