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Ian Greenstreet
Founder and Chairman of Infinity Capital
Partners; Director, London Stock Exchange

An investment banker and world-renowned expert in
financial risk, in 2016 Ian became chairman and founding
partner of Touch FX, alongside his wife Janet Thomas.
The fin-tech company allows people buying foreign
exchange to drastically reduce transaction costs and comply
with new regulatory obligations.
It has already attracted enormous interest from a number
of financial institutions, with organisations such as Deloitte
already signed up.
Ian is also founder and chairman of Infinity Capital
Partners, a London-based corporate finance firm, which is
approved and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
With more than 35 years of experience and insight within
the banking and financial services sector, Ian uses his
risk expertise to facilitate deals across a range of sectors
in emerging markets. These include financial technology,
banking and finance, as well as power/natural resources
echnology
(oil, gas), infrastructure.
In October 2015, he became a member of the Board
Advisory group of the London Stock Exchange.
He sits on the board of Diamond Bank one of Africa’s
largest indigenous institutions. Ian keenly supports a
number of young people’s initiatives.
His high level of expertise in Financial Risk and
knowledge has made him a sought after-speaker at
conferences and events.
In August 2014, Ian was invited to attend the first US-
African Leaders Summit, hosted by then-President Barack
Obama.

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