Diaspora Holding is built around a commitment to diversity, community, empowerment and inclusion—and we’ve instilled these values in our name and branding. We are creating a suite of next-generation digital banking ecosystems around the world and we partner with similarly minded businesses to help them do the same.
We provide tailored fintech apps and platforms for markets that are currently underserved by traditional banking services.
Diaspora Holding develops transformative digital tools that promote financial inclusivity and foster a sense of community.
Above all, we are user-centred in our approach. In every market we serve, our team takes the time to truly understand our customers’ needs in order to create tailored banking and payment solutions that can anticipate and solve for any hurdles our customers might come up against—and we back up this understanding with extensive user-testing. Our digital products not only simplify financial and banking tasks with well-tested UI and UX design, but help these communities grow through educational content and time-saving efficiencies that help our users get back to the things that matter most in life.
Whether serving the UK’s growing population of self-employed workers with a community-focused digital banking ecosystem, providing cutting-edge payments apps for an underbanked population in MENA countries, or partnering with banks and businesses around the world to create bespoke solutions together, Diaspora Holding and its affiliate brands are working tirelessly to make banking easier for everyone.
The Diaspora team exemplifies our commitment to diversity and inclusion, while offering extensive global experience across the payments, finance, and banking landscapes. Our managers have worked for Samsung, RBS, MasterCard, and Société Générale, just to name a few. We are small but mighty—and growing.
Ibrahim Farag
Chief Executive Officer
Marité Ferrero
Chief Operations Officer
Jagdeep Bhambra
Chief Technology Officer
Embracing diversity, inclusion, and empowerment as foundational values at Diaspora, we’ve built our team to ensure fair representation across gender, ethnicity, and beliefs. We know that having a diverse team is a significant strength—it brings a unique range of perspectives to everything we do. Our hiring processes ensure equal employment opportunities for candidates of all genders, ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, religious beliefs, disability statuses, and other protected characteristics.
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Chief Executive Officer
Diaspora was founded in 2019 by Ibrahim Farag, a finance and banking expert with 20 years of experience across EMEA financial institutions. Ibrahim is a PhD researcher and holds a master’s degree in finance from the University of Birmingham. He also attended the fintech programme at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.
Throughout his career, Ibrahim has worked for top financial institutions around the world, including Société Générale and FIM Bank, a subsidiary of the International Finance Corporation. He is a member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute, and a mentor with the CFA Society of the UK.
Chief Operations Officer
Marité is a certified professional Scrum master with 20 years of experience in the agile approach, programme and product management, and a proven track record of delivering key improvements in digital business transformation across a broad range of sectors.
She has co-founded two startups in the US and France and is a named inventor of a USPTO-granted patent. She has worked on multiple banking solutions while leading development teams both locally and worldwide.
Chief Technology Officer
Working with both UK-based and global clients, Jagdeep offers over 20 years of experience in technology roles. He has worked across numerous sectors and disciplines, including development, delivery, support, operations, procurement, security, and architecture. He brings a unique blend of entrepreneurial spirit, deep technological expertise, risk management, and commercial awareness to the Diaspora team.