Paul Staples has had a 20 year career founding, building and scaling tech and business platforms across multiple industries including Banks. Paul has been involved in Banking as a Service and Embedded Banking for many years and is an active commentator and advocate for safe and well regulated EmFin. He is currently Head of Embedded Banking for ClearBank, having previously been an advisor to a number of PE and VC firms and was formerly the one of the founders of HSBC Global Embedded Banking business. At HSBC he was charged with building and scaling the business through solving complex banking needs directly where the consumer needs them, in doing so unlock value for all parties involved. Paul has also founded several technology companies over the years, from Oil&Gas Market places during the dot.com days and Carbon depository solutions, to more recently building a SaaS platform that solves the logistics complexity for Ports and Construction sites not for last mile but last foot.