Biography

Dan Schatt

dschatt@celent.com

Dan Schatt is a senior analyst in Celent's retail banking group and is based in the firm's San Francisco office. Mr. Schatt's research and consulting are focused on emerging technologies impacting retail financial services, with a particular emphasis on online banking and electronic payment systems. His recent projects have examined the converging channels of digital, mobile, and physical commerce and how banks, device manufacturers, mobile carriers, retailers, and third party technology providers are developing business and technology strategies and tactics for future growth.

Mr. Schatt has been widely quoted in the media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Week, Forbes, Dow Jones, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNN Money, Euromoney, LatinFinance, The Banker, Red Herring, San Jose Mercury News, and Business 2.0. He has also written articles for American Banker and Bank Systems & Technology

He has presented at national and international venues, including the United Nations Development Program Roundtable on Remittances, the World Bank / APEC Dialogue on Remittance Systems, Source Media's Micro and Small Payments Conference, NACHA's Annual Payments Conference, BAI's TransPay conference, and The Internet Retailer conference. 

Before joining Celent, Mr. Schatt was a senior director at Yodlee Inc., where he managed a cross-functional team charged with the development and implementation of strategic data integrations with top tier financial institutions and portals. Mr. Schatt also served as general manager of Yodlee's data products and services. Previously, he was the co-founder and director of corporate development at CrossFunds Inc., a company providing card-based international funds transfer solutions to the subprime market. Prior to CrossFunds, Mr. Schatt worked as an investment banker for Salomon Smith Barney and held positions in Asia, Europe, and Africa with Citigroup as well as FSVC.  

Mr. Schatt received a dual MBA (Finance) and MIA (International Economic Policy) from Columbia University and his BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is fluent in Romanian.

 

        

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