March 6, 2026

Oliver Grant

The Tech Trends Articles by: Oliver Grant
Oliver Grant

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Oliver graduated in Mathematics from the University of Bristol and earned an M.Sc. in Financial Technology from Imperial College London. He began as a backend engineer at a payments startup building ledgers, risk checks, and reconciliation tools that had to be correct the first time. Over nine years, he shifted into product and analysis roles focused on open banking, fraud prevention, and checkout UX that balances trust with speed. He writes about turning regulation into delightful product decisions: PSD2 as a design prompt, strong customer authentication that doesn’t punish users, and copy that actually reduces chargebacks. Oliver volunteers with digital-literacy programs, mentors early founders on payments pitfalls, and speaks at meetups about the hidden UX of money movement. On weekends he runs along river paths, hosts game nights, and experiments with pour-over ratios.
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