OWNY (YC S18) — AI driven payment rails for emerging market banks
OWNY gives emerging-market banks a more efficient access to global payment rails.
OWNY is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2018 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI driven payment rails for emerging market banks. The founder listed is Umed Latifov (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 24, 2018).
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OWNY is an AI-driven fintech making global payments more efficient and accessible for emerging-market banks. Accounts, payments, FX, stablecoin access, compliance, support and reporting.
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Umed Latifov
Founder
Umed has 18+ year experience in finance, private equity, banking regulation and infrastructure investments. He has a comprehensive background ranging from a startup CEO to managing multi-billion dollar energy generation, transmission and distribution projects. Most recently he was Vice Chair of Central Bank and then Vice Minister of Finance of Tajikistan where he was in charge of overhauling the countries payments infrastructure. Umed holds and MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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