Ricky Knox

London, UK

Founder & CEO

Tandem Bank

Biography

Ricky is a serial entrepreneur and has built multiple successful businesses. He has built five technology disruptors in fintech and telecoms and founded Tandem in 2013.

Ricky co-founded GSM Systems (a global mobile telephony network services provider) in 2003 and is a Director and Founder of Small World Financial Services Group (a global money transfer business with over £4bn of transfers) which is now Europe's largest independent Money Transfer operator. He also Founder and Non-Executive Director of Azimo, a social digital payments platform that enables simple, fast and secure remittances to 198 countries globally.

Ricky is also Managing Partner at Hexagon Partners, a specialist private equity firm which invests in financial technology.

Ricky holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Ricky Knox’s Newsfeed

06 Jun 2018

Specialist Banking

Tandem aims to save customers a total of £10m by end of year

“It’s great to see people already getting so much value from our offering,” said Ricky Knox, CEO at Tandem. “Tandem was built with the customer in mind and we only make money when they do – for us that’s what it means to be a good bank.”

31 May 2018

AltFi

When Tandem met Harrods: we had ‘sir’, but we didn’t have ‘dame’

What happens when a fintech bank takes over a bank founded in 1893? And how did Tandem fund the acquisition of Harrods Bank? Its CEO, Ricky Knox, tells all.

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Ricky Knox’s Background

Tandem Bank

Founder & CEO

2013 - Present

London, UK

Tandem Money is an app-based, full-service retail bank with built-in budgeting features, such as alerts when bills increase or a payment comes in, advice on switching energy supplier and automatic advice on how much customers can afford to spend each month.

Azimo

Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director

2012 - Present

London, UK

Azimo is an online remittance transfer service for customers who wish to make transactions to overseas accounts.

Hexagon Partners

Managing Partner

2005 - Present

London, UK

Private Equity investment firm focused on technology-enabled, customer-centric financial services. Investment in early stage and roll-up opportunities where people meet finance. Focus areas include payments, foreign exchange, insurance, banking & fund management.

GSM Systems

Founder & Non-Executive Chairman

Dec 2003 - Present

New York, US

GSM Systems provides services and support to deliver the highest return on mobile operators' network assets, by providing optimal visibility, quality and availability throughout the technology life cycle. Since its founding in 2003 the firm has built partnerships with 170+ mobile operators in 70+ countries to reduce costs and drive efficiency in network maintenance and expansion.

Small World Financial Services Group

Co-founder

2005 - 2013

London, UK

Ricky built the company from inception to a Top 10 global money transfer business with $4.5 bn+ annual turnover. Raised £30m+ equity and debt funding. Acquired, restructured and integrated 12 businesses across US, Canada and 18 European countries.