Head of Innovation & FinTech de Gide, Franck Guiader is an expert in innovation regulation (marketplaces, blockchained services, ICOs, roboadvisors, crowdfunding platforms, AI). He is also a leading player in the development of the Paris financial market (creation for the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) of the FROG initiatives, Agility and Unicorn programmes, and ICO management).

Franck began his career as a financial analyst at Lazard in 2001. He then joined BNP Paribas in 2003, and Euronext in 2006. In 2011, he joined the AMF’s Asset Management Regulation division of the Regulatory Policy and International Affairs Directorate, before becoming its head in 2015. In May 2016, Franck became head of the AMF’s new FinTech division, Innovation and Competitiveness. He also co-led the AMF-ACPR FinTech forum with the supervisory authority.

Franck holds a Master’s degree in Business Law, the Magistère Banque Finance and a Master’s degree in Financial Techniques from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. He is also a graduate of Neoma Business School and the University of Paris V René Descartes in Applied Mathematics. He teaches European regulation and its impact on advanced technologies at the Institut de Haute Finance and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.