George Samakovitis is Professor of FinTech and Deputy Head of School of School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich, UK. He specialises in banking and payment technologies and AI for FinTech. His research addresses deployment and governance of technologies for AML and FinCrime, blockchain agents to develop Collective Intelligence capabilities in FinTech networks, and compliance models for programmable digital assets.

He served at the Bank of England CBDC Technology Forum advising the on the design of the Digital Pound and previously worked with the Counter Fraud & Data Analytics Advisory Group of the HMG Cabinet Office, the FinCrime Working Group (UK Payments Strategy Forum), and the BSI UK Data Standards Expert Panel, which published the 2023 BSI Value of Data Report, informing the UK National Data Strategy.

His past research focused on banking technology investment decisions and the risk/uncertainty relationship under disparate decision-making paradigms.