Nicole Sandler 

Nicole is the Head of Digital Policy at Barclays. She drives the policy engagement on digital regulation and initiatives including AI and DLT cases, and regularly engages with policymakers globally. Nicole represents Barclays in various regulatory and policy forums and industry groups. She is on the European Commission’s Expert Group on Regulatory Obstacles to Financial Innovation; co-chairs the UK Finance AI Policy Committee; chairs the UK Finance New Forms of Digital Money SteerCo; sits on the GFMA Digital Asset Steerco, and she is on the UK Finance Digital, Technology and Cyber Product and Services Board. Nicole regularly speaks on panels, conferences and at universities. She has presented on AI at the EC FinTech Lab and represented Barclays at both the Crypto-Asset and Blockchain roundtable and Digital Identity roundtable at the EU Parliament.

She has received the following accolades: Top 20 Most Influential Women in Digital Assets 2023 (Financial News), Top 100 Women in FinTech 2022 (FinTech Magazine), Industry Personality of the Year 2022 (the City AM, Crypto A.M), Top 30 Women in Fintech 2021 (Re.Work), Influencer of the Year (NY Finovate Awards 2019) and Most Influential Women in FinTech Regulation – UK (Wealth and Finance Awards 2019).