Paul Harrald

Paul is Head of Curve Credit, a new lending business in Beta phase. Curve Credit will debut in the UK, Europe and the US later in 2021. A founding member of the fintech start-up, Newday Ltd., sold for $742m in 2011, Paul also was executive Director at The Royal Bank of Scotland, serving on the boards of the credit cards issuing and merchant acquiring businesses.  Paul was a member of Standard Chartered’s Executive Management team, more recently, he has been a Credit and Risk Advisor at Google and ran alternative lending at the hedge fund manager Arrowgrass Capital Partners. Paul was tenured at the University of Manchester and served as a visiting Professor in Computing Science at UCL, where he taught applied blockchain engineering, he was an advisor to the Alan Turing Institute and a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute.