Jeevan Gnanam receives Master Fintech Professional certification from Fintech Association of Sri Lanka (FASL) Senior Adviser Tissa Jayaweera and FASL President Rajkumar Kanagasingam

Jeevan Gnanam, initiator of the HatchX: Sri Lanka’s pioneer fintech accelerator, was recently honoured by awarding the Global Academy of Finance and Management (GAFM)’s Certification - Master Fintech Professional, for his contributions towards the fintech sector, at Digital Finance Forum, which was held recently at Hilton Colombo.  

HatchX, the country’s first-ever fintech accelerator programme having launched amidst the pandemic last year by Hatch in partnership with Lankan Angel Network (LAN) and funded by the Ford Foundation, enables local fintech start-ups to reach out fintech ecosystems in Sri Lanka and rest of Asia. 

Gnanam is the fifth person to receive the certification after Prof. Douglas W. Arner, Kerry Holdings Professor in Law at the University of Hong Kong, who led the development of the world’s largest massive open online course (MOOC): Introduction to FinTech, launched on edX in May 2018, now with approximately 100,000 learners spanning every country in the world; Mirna Sleiman, Founder and CEO of Fintech Galaxy, the MENA region’s only digital crowdsourcing platform that empowers Fintech entrepreneurs and connects them with financial institutions, consultants, tech companies, mentors and investors both regionally and globally; Do Van Long, CEO of Vietnam Blockchain Corporation and Regional Chief Strategy Officer at Infinity Blockchain Labs, which focus on expanding blockchain knowledge across Vietnam, in an effort to make Vietnam a Fintech hub and Takeshi Kito, Board Member of Fintech Association of Japan (FAJ) and Advisory Committee Member for the Government of Japan’s Regulatory Sandbox.