Built & licensed
A de novo international bank
Fintech founder · investor · product strategist
SLAVASOLODKIY
I build institutions for ideas that look impossible.
From a de novo bank licence and early fintech investing to digital identity, AI infrastructure and applied research — I turn regulated complexity into products, platforms and public artefacts.
Founded & backed
Fintech companies before consensus
Researches & ships
Books, sites and frontier prototypes
SELECTED CASES / SOURCE-LED / PLATE 02
PROOF,
NOT PROMISES.
Three ways the same operating pattern shows up: take a big “no”, separate hard constraints from soft ones, and make the institution move.
Arival Bank
Build a bank for international SMEs and non-standard clients when most advisers considered the proposition impossible.
- Role
- Founder · CEO/CPO · institutional translator
- Outcome
- Obtained de novo bank licence IFE-065 after roughly 2.5 years and built a compliance-first international banking product.
Life.SREDA
Create a fintech investment thesis before the category had broad institutional consensus.
- Role
- Founder · Managing Partner · thesis-builder
- Outcome
- Built a 20+ company portfolio and used Money of the Future research to create shared language, distribution and a global founder network.
InspirAsia
Give Southeast Asian fintech founders an international bridge to capital, institutions and operators.
- Role
- Founder · CEO · ecosystem builder
- Outcome
- Created a visible Singapore platform combining acceleration, workspace, mentorship, events and regulator/university links.
OPPORTUNITY ROUTING / CHOOSE A LENS / PLATE 03
ONE PROFILE.
THREE USEFUL ROUTES.
The common thread is institutional product-building. Choose the route that matches your mandate; the rest can stay out of the room.
Hire me to build
Zero-to-one product, founder’s office, special projects, strategy and innovation in regulated or institution-heavy markets.
CPO · Product/Innovation lead · EIR · Founder’s office
Looking for mandate Fund the research
Practice-derived work across digital identity, institutional trust, fintech infrastructure, AI compute and civic resilience.
Funded PhD · Fellowship · Residency · Commissioned research
Resume Build together
Focused advisory and venture work where product, regulation, network and narrative must move as one system.
Advisor · Venture partner · Board · Fractional strategy
CV OPERATING PATTERN / K100
01
Frame
Turn an oversized problem into constraints, unknowns and a route to evidence.
02
Translate
Speak product, regulation, founder, investor and public-interest language without losing the idea.
03
Materialise
Use licences, products, books, sites and prototypes to make thinking inspectable.
04
Connect
Bring the right institutional and founder networks around a focused mission.
RECENT RESEARCH ARTEFACTS / 2026 / PLATE 04
THINKING
YOU CAN OPEN.
Research is most useful when it leaves the document: as a thesis, a public conversation, a product brief or a prototype.
BK-01 / LIVE
The NVIDIA Innovator’s Dilemma
AI infrastructure · hardware · strategic foresight
Open project BK-02 / LIVEReady, Actually
UK resilience · defence · civic systems
Open project BK-03 / LIVEFuturoshock
Foresight · culture · science-fiction-led products
Open project BK-04 / LIVEEurope’s First Trillion-Dollar Startup? Revolut, not?
Fintech strategy · ecosystems · institutional growth
Open projectSELECTED CHRONOLOGY / OVERLAPS ARE REAL / PLATE 05
CAREER
IN LAYERS.
Independent R&D
Applied research, books, advisory work and product prototypes across identity, AI infrastructure and civic systems.
Arival Bank
Founder and CEO/CPO; de novo licensing, product architecture, compliance and international banking.
InspirAsia
Founder and CEO of a Singapore fintech accelerator and ecosystem platform.
SREDA.Ventures
Founder and Managing Partner; early fintech investing and research-led category formation.
Banking + telecom
Product and marketing leadership; the operating foundation for later regulated ventures.
EDUCATION / CLEAN RECORD
Political science → institutional trust
Saint Petersburg State University — Master’s degree in Political Science, State Policy and Administration (2007); Bachelor’s degree in Political Science (2005).
Lomonosov Moscow State University — postgraduate research in public administration (2007–2010); dissertation not defended, no degree awarded.
The through-line: how information, regulation, products and infrastructure construct trust in institutions.
FINAL PROOF / OPEN FOR THE RIGHT MISSION
HAVE A HARD
PROBLEM?
Senior operating roles, founder’s-office mandates, funded research, venture work and a small number of serious advisory collaborations.
London · Edinburgh · Remote