Paulius Tarbunas, a professional with many years of experience in the fields of banking and finance, joined the management team of the fintech company NEO Finance. He will lead the company’s Open Banking Department in developing the Neopay brand. P. Tarbunas has been working in the fields of banking and finance for more than 25 years. He led the Fintech Lithuania Group, which is part of the information and communication technology association Infobalt, where he was responsible for the group’s development, its publicity in Lithuania and abroad, legislative initiatives and developing the fintech community. Prior to that, P. Tarbunas managed and led a project to establish the joint central credit union Kreda, and for 20 years he held various management positions at SEB Bank in the Baltic States and Ukraine. Over the six years of its operations, NEO Finance has developed Paskolu klubas – the P2P lending platform in Lithuania. Three years ago, the company started operating the payment initiation service Neopay. It has also expanded its operations in Lithuania and 7 other European Union countries. In 2019, the shares of NEO Finance have been listed to trading on Nasdaq Baltic First North market. In June 2020, NEO Finance was elected as a Company of the Year in the field of lending, investments and P2P, at the Fintech Week Lithuania 2020 awards that were held in Lithuania for the first time. Furthermore, last summer, NEO Finance acquired the crowdfunding platform FinoMark.