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Rahul Bhargava

Interim COO

Contour

Rahul Bhargava is a globally recognized business leader with over 25 years of experience driving innovation and public-private initiatives across financial services, emerging payments and trade digitisation. His expertise lies in successfully helping both public and private sector organisations globally in navigating the complex landscape of next generation transaction value chains, evolving digital currencies, payment systems and emerging technologies like AI. As a global strategy leader and industry thought leader, Rahul has spearheaded key industry initiatives delivering demonstrable 0-1 value in mostly new-to-business portfolios at SWIFT, the World Bank Group, WEF, Accenture, FIS, RBS, ICICI Bank, AI 2030, EPAA, Currency Research and other prominent organizations with global and regional impact. He has additionally taken up a pivotal role recently as Interim COO of Contour Network, seeking to innovate and digitise across the transaction value chain, integrating and standardising upstream trade finance all the way to end payment settlements, retaining optionality for traditional and emerging payment methods, providing full flexibility for different size corporates and banks, while enabling Agentic AI and white labelled services.

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