Oleksandr Potapenko

What I work on

Building Finray Technologies — three platform products serving regulated finance:

• Corebanq — core banking infrastructure for accounts, payments, ledger control, and operational evidence.
• XZiel — transaction risk monitoring and investigation system, with TRM Labs blockchain intelligence integrated.
• Ordinis — governance, risk, compliance, and internal-control system covering risks, controls, policies, incidents, and audit trails.

Across all three: built for FINMA, MiCA, PSD2, and DORA from day one. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified at the company level. TRM Labs is a strategic partner.

Background

Two decades across banking architecture, payment infrastructure, and risk management. Before founding Finray, led core banking platform builds for multiple regulated firms across the EU and Switzerland — across FINMA-supervised institutions, EMIs, and PIs.

Author of The MiCA Survival Guide and long-form research published on Finray Intelligence — primary-source-cited radars covering EU/UK PI/EMI core banking, DORA Article 28, MiCA CASP licensing, the Travel Rule, and Swiss FINMA GRC architecture.

Education & credentials

• ETH Zürich — CAS ETH in Machine Learning in Finance and Insurance 2026 – Present Supervised and unsupervised learning, model governance, explainability, and deployment within regulated financial environments — fraud detection, transaction monitoring, credit and risk modelling.
• ETH Zürich — CAS ETH in Entrepreneurial Leadership in Technology Ventures 2025 – 2026 Technological innovation, entrepreneurial strategy, team building, venture finance, and growth execution.
• University of Zürich — CAS UZH in Crypto Compliance 2024 · Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics Blockchain forensics, on-chain compliance, and the regulatory perimeter for crypto-asset service providers.
• University of Zürich — CAS UZH in FinTech 2023 – 2024 · Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics Financial-sector innovation, platform architecture, and regulatory technology.
• Saïd Business School, University of Oxford — Oxford FinTech Programme 2024 Financial technology & market structure.
• Stanford Graduate School of Business — Stanford LEAD 2022 – 2023 Strategic leadership, values-based leadership, corporate innovation.
• INSEAD — Executive education 2016 – 2018 Decision-making under uncertainty, human capital, strategy.

Where to find me

• [email protected]
• LinkedIn
• finray.tech