Amnah Ajmal is the former Executive Vice President, Market Development, EEMEA for Mastercard. In this role, she led the P&L across multiple business verticals including merchants, governments, fintech’s, Crypto, BNPL and digital players across 80 markets. She built a billion $ + fastest growing

business for the company globally. In addition, she also headed the strategy, pricing, analytics and M&A function. She led the largest M&A deals for the company including Network International, MTN & Airtel Mobile Money. Prior to this role she led the North America product & innovation organization.

Amnah became the youngest wealth and retail bank CEO for Standard Chartered Malaysia where she led the transition of the Malaysia retail bank franchise into a digital bank. Prior to that, she was responsible for retail banking strategy for Indonesia, Malaysia & Taiwan in a global role based out of Singapore. Before joining Standard Chartered, Amnah held several leadership roles at Citi in UAE, Egypt, UK and Poland, including heading the lending business, innovation and distribution for Poland. Under her leadership Citi’s Poland business won multiple awards for the most innovative credit co brands and digital lending products.

She was recognized by Forbes Middle East as 100 Most Powerful Businesswomen 2024 and 2025. Additionally, she has received multiple global accolades over the years including:

• The global top 100 women in fintech, for 2021 by IBM & Fintech magazine.
• America’s top 10 women in Fintech by the Fintech Magazine for 2020.
• Top 25 women leaders in financial technology by the Financial Technology Report US for 2019 & 2020.
• Top 100 women in Fintech, across the globe, for 2019 by Lattice80 UK.