Rajkumar named as Bronze award winner at “Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence” in 2024

Rajkumar Kanagasingam

Fintech Association of Sri Lanka (FASL) Founding President Rajkumar Kanagasingam has been named as Bronze award winner under “Executive of the Year – Financial Technology” category at “The Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence” in 2024. 

The awarding ceremony will be held in September at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York. 

The Stevie Awards was created in 2002 to honour and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organisations and working professionals worldwide. 

There are more than 12,000 nominations received each year internationally. 

There are nine Stevie Awards programs, each with its own focus, list of categories, and schedule. 

The programs include; the American Business Awards, the International Business Awards, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East and North Africa Stevie Awards, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service, the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence and the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. 

Fintech Association of Sri Lanka (FASL) is an independent, not-for-profit cross-industry organisation representing Sri Lankan and the global Fintech community to support the development, innovation and investment in the Fintech sector. 

FASL tries its best to promote the fintech ecosystem in Sri Lanka which has been heavily affected in the recent past by the 2019 Easter bombings, COVID pandemic and the subsequent severe economic crisis.

FASL is spearheading to promote the Fintech ecosystem in Asia by actively participating as a supporting institution in the regional fintech events including, “Finners City Summit” in 2018 in Shanghai, China, “Chain Plus: Asia-Pacific Blockchain New Finance Summit” in 2019 in Singapore, “Real Estate Tokenisation - Challenges and Opportunities in Hong Kong” Seminar in 2019 at the University of Hong Kong, “Block Plus Summit – Future of Fintech” in 2019 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, “India Fintech Award” in 2019 in Mumbai, India, “Fintech Galaxy Awards” in 2019 in Dubai, UAE, The Asian Banker’s “Finance Sri Lanka” in 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, “Asia Smart App Awards” in 2019 - 2022 in Hong Kong, “Seamless Middle East” in 2020 - 2024 in Dubai, UAE, “Singapore FinTech Festival” in 2019 - 2024 in Singapore, “Hong Kong FinTech Week” in 2020 - 2024 in Hong Kong, “Japan FinTech Festival” in Tokyo, Japan in 2024, ”Dubai FinTech Summit” in 2024 in Dubai, UAE.

Rajkumar has participated at a number of international fintech forums (in India, Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Vietnam) as a speaker, moderator, facilitator or a jury. 

He is the coordinator of the FASL’s initiative to draft a report titled, “Enhancing Colombo International Financial City (Port City Colombo) as a Leading Fintech Hub in South Asia” to submit to the President of Sri Lanka; the initiative is being assisted by a number of FinTech experts globally and Professor Douglas Arner, the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) as the Chief Consultant. 

Rajkumar founded with his Indian business partner an e-commerce venture in 2001 which had the Board of Investment (BOI) of Sri Lanka approval but victimised at the very beginning by the dot-com crash. 

He involved in 2017 as a team member of Middle East based INGOT Coin, the first fully integrated Wallet with a Digital Bank, Brokerage, Exchange, Certifier, and ICO Accelerator; the blockchain based partially decentralised initiative was paused because of regulatory and other issues. He then focussed on blockchain based Security Token Offerings (STO).

Rajkumar is the Founder and CEO of Asian FinTech Academy (AFTA) which conducts Executive Programs on Fintech, Digital Assets and AI in Finance and organises “Asian Digital Finance Forum and Awards” annually. Monetary Authority of Singapore Chief FinTech Officer Sopnendu Mohanty stated in 2021, “I am pleased to see the effort made by the AFTA to create awareness on the blockchain-enabled digital financial world.” 

He is a founding member of the Hong Kong based International Digital Economies Association (IDEA) which has chapters in all the continents.