Daniel Gusev

Financial technologies, payments and venture formation.

Conceiving, nurturing and leading several global financial technologies initiatives over the span of 18+ year retail banking, payments and fintech investments career.

Selected initiatives

2015

Co-founder and product leader of Paysend – a 10+ million user international money remitter.

2016

Co-founder and managing partner of Digital Space Ventures, investments in Revolut, Tandem, Albert.

2019

Inception and product leadership of a major regional e-commerce wallet - JV with Alipay.

2019

Launch of Gauss VC with early-stage global investments in fintech, evolved today into a global incubation in “shift technologies”, enabling pillars of global economic growth.

Presentations

FinovateEurope 2016 / PaySend

FF18 POSTCARDS Russia

FinovateFall 2016 / FF

Bordeaux FinTech 2018

4 Global Fintech Projects and Counting

Paysend (UK), Digital Space Ventures (EU), Major Wallet JV with Alipay (2021), Gauss Ventures & Gauss Growth Capital.

Links:

I’ve relentlessly tracked and blogged about emerging waves of innovation in financial services, focussing on specific regions and topics. Below listed are a few snippets.

2007–2017 Posts about CIS Financial Services Innovation 2017–present day Posts about global fintech trends, investments, behavioural phenomena around payments

Books & Articles:

The Book of Payments: Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo and Leonidas Efthymiou World Bank - Russia Landscaping Report: Financial Inclusion A Study of Global Correspondent Banking and Use of Alternative Value-chains in Emerging Markets A Study of the Economic Model of Japan and the Challenges faced by its Banking Industry Systemic Fintech Innovation in Medieval Florence (1300-1500): the Standards lowering risk and improving pan-European Efficiency of Trade Historical and Legal Analysis of the Adoption of PSD2 (originally published in 2018) Book reviews Book Spire Medium Channel