Founder & CEO · PayLater · Doha

Devid Jegerson

Building Qatar's first QCB-licensed, Sharia-compliant BNPL platform — after 30+ years shipping payment firsts across Italy, the UAE and Qatar.

LinkedIn profile

Track record

30+

years in fintech

startups launched

C-suite bank roles

peer-reviewed papers

Contact

dj@payhacks.com

Doha, Qatar

IT · EN · FR

Firsts shipped

2025

PayLater — Qatar's first licensed Sharia-compliant BNPL

2016

First cloud payment platform in the Middle East (noonpay)

2014

Jiffy — Italy's first P2P payment network, now part of the UAE's NPSS

2008

IWBank eCommerce acquiring — first Italian online bank to gain direct VISA/Mastercard acquiring in 15 years

2007

First eMoney bank account in Italy (Revolut-like)

2004

PayPal Italy launch — 1M accounts in 14 months

2002

World's first rechargeable prepaid card

Career

PayLater — Founder & CEO

Doha · QCB-licensed BNPL

2025 –

InvestBank — COO

Sharjah · turnaround to first profit (2023)

2023 – 24

National Bank of Fujairah — CDO

Dubai · bank-wide digital transformation

2018 – 23

noon.com — CEO, noonpayments

Dubai & KSA · regional payment platform

2015 – 18

UBI Banca — VP ePayments

Milan · UBI Pay, NFC, Jiffy co-founder

2012 – 15

IWBank — Head of Payments

Milan · eMoney & acquiring vertical

2006 – 12

PayPal — Head of Product, Italy

Milan · market launch

2004 – 06

CartaFacile — Operations Director

Milan · first rechargeable prepaid card

2002 – 04

Expertise

Sharia-compliant fintechBuy now, pay laterCentral bank licensingDigital banking transformationePayments strategyCrypto & blockchainOpen banking · PSD2/PSD3Product strategyAgile organisation design Sharia-compliant fintechBuy now, pay laterCentral bank licensingDigital banking transformationePayments strategyCrypto & blockchainOpen banking · PSD2/PSD3Product strategyAgile organisation design

Research

Deciphering the role of cryptocurrencies in global remittances — Mgmt & Sustainability: An Arab Review (2024)

Investigating the unexpected determinants of cryptocurrency adoption in the UAE — Int. J. of Emerging Markets (2023)

Adoption of cryptocurrencies for remittances in the UAE — European J. of Innovation Mgmt (2023)

Adoption factors in digital mobile payments in the COVID-19 era — IJPCC (2022)

Book — I pagamenti elettronici (goWare, 2016) · Fintech & Islamic Finance, Cambridge GIFR (2022)

Full list on Google Scholar →