Techie with a faible for founding banks | Entrepreneur | Co-Founder/CTO at Unstoppable Finance | ex CTO at Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange | ex Co-Founder/CTO at Solarisbank

Peter Grosskopf is CTO/COO at AllUnity, a joint venture of DWS, Flow Traders and Galaxy Digital that is building an E-Money institute in Germany to issue a MiCAR-compliant EUR-denominated stablecoin in the future to enhance liquidity and efficiency in tokenized markets. He is responsible for technology and for setting up the organization. 

Before, he was co-founder and CTO of Unstoppable Finance GmbH, a Berlin-based company with the mission of bringing decentralized finance applications (DeFi) to the masses. With Iron they planned building the first on-chain bank, which is based on a proprietary blockchain technology called "Iron Chain." Iron Chain addresses the three key issues that regulated companies, in particular, face with public, permissionless blockchains: privacy of account data, compliance, and governance. Previously, Unstoppable developed the self-hosted wallet app Ultimate (https://ultimate.app), which was acquired by the decentralized exchange Jupiter in April 2024. Before that, Peter was CTO and Managing Director of Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange, the first regulated exchange for digital assets (MTF) in Germany. Prior to that, he was CTO and co-founder of Solarisbank, a fullbank with technology platform to enable Fintechs to go to market. Peter has a background in technology and entrepreneurship. In 2008, he founded a software engineering consulting company focused on digitization projects and grew it to 30 employees profitably. In 2014, he moved to Berlin to join the company builder Hitfoxgroup and Finleap as CTO, with a focus on fintech. He has been fascinated by blockchain and decentralization since the end of 2016, and since then, he has pursued the vision of making decentralized banking a reality.

In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Peter is a speaker at various industry events, a member of the Digital Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Finance ("Digital Finance Forum"), a contributor in shaping regulation (Crypto Taxation in Germany, TFR, MiCAR, MiCAR Level 2, AMLR, BCBS Standards) in Germany (via Ministry of Finance, Bitkom, private initiatives) and EU (via Blockchain for Europe), a lecturer at IKF Lucerne on Blockchain Technology (CAS), and was a lecturer for two years at FH Münster, teaching subjects such as web engineering, as well as at the Data Science Summer School at Saarland University. As a supervisory board member of 21x, he supports the development of the first marketplace for digital assets under the European DLT Pilot Regime.

Peter Grosskopf

AllUnity

Head of Fintech Engineering

Zazu

Advisor

Iron

Building a next generation bank from scratch…

- Driving make-or-buy decision for the core-banking infrastructure
- Definition and modelling of necessary business processes

Banking Platform Architect

Solaris

- Solution design of various products (including SamsungPay, FX, Cards)
- Interim product owner on various internal and external product developments (including ViaCash, Postbox, ISO8583 card authorization engine, cards clearing systems)
- Technical migration project lead for the ADAC card portfolio

Head of Product Architecture

- Leading the product owners in Solaris' cards domain
- Overseeing the development of the credit card product (charge & revolving)
- Evolving the transaction processing capabilities for prepaid, debit and credit cards
- Driving the integration efforts of Solarisbank‘s and Contis‘ cards systems

Head of Product - Cards (Interim)

- Developing the domain architecture of the bank‘s core-banking system landscape.
- Bootstrapping core-banking teams as interim product owner
- Driving vendor evaluation projects in the areas of regulatory reporting, general ledger accounting, loan engine
- Designing and engineering card management and transaction processing systems for debit and prepaid cards

Head of Banking Engineering

- Product Management
- Developing the infrastructure and first API products in Solaris (Digital Banking, Lending)

Senior Engineer

Invamo UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Founder

HitFox Group

Worked exclusively on the product/technology that became Solarisbank in 2016

Senior Developer

Developing innovative solutions for the banking industry

Senior Consultant (Digital Financial Services)

Enterprise Integration and IT-Strategy in international projects

IT Consultant

mirabis GmbH

Software Engineer

Deutsche Bank

Global Markets Equity - Xavex Online Support

Intern

I have 14y+ experience in the financial services world  as a consultant and building up Solaris’ API and banking architecture from scratch, including the following domains digital-banking, core-banking, cards, lending, reporting.

Happy to connect to people I know or are interested in an exchange around banking, fintech, cards, payments, etc.

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