Nicole Sandler is the Chief Ecosystem Officer at Ubyx and Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at CFIT. She is an award-winning digital policy expert driving stakeholder engagement and shaping financial regulation in FinTech, AI, and digital assets; formerly Head of Digital Policy at Barclays. Nicole sat on the European Commission’s Expert Group on Regulatory Obstacles to Financial Innovation and participated in the Crypto-asset and Blockchain roundtables at the European Parliament. She regularly speaks on panels, presents at conferences and universities, has articles published and focuses on upskilling and diversity initiatives. Further, she was named in the Financial News ‘Top 20 Most Influential Women in Digital Assets’