Ariane Arend is a Business Development & Talent Acquisition Consultant for Capital Markets Advisors. She is a strategic leader in payments and financial services with 20+ years of experience driving growth across fintech, enterprise retail, and B2B solutions. Ariane held senior leadership roles at NCR/Cardtronics, Berkeley Payments, and American Express. She exceeded sales targets by up to 437%, bringing in hundreds of millions in new business, spearheaded Canada’s largest Buyer Initiated Payment (BIP) program, delivered real-time disbursement and debt repayment solutions for global enterprises and closed the largest retail deal in Canada in recent years, reshaping the grocery payments landscape. She specialized in virtual card programs, real-time disbursements, and client-centric innovation that scaled.

Her career began with strategic roles at GE Commercial Finance, Microsoft Financing, TELUS and Xerox, where she mastered the art of deal structuring, client enablement, and cross-functional collaboration. Ariane’s superpower? Blending deep technical knowledge with a relentless focus on client success. Whether she’s building fintech ecosystems or crafting compelling value propositions, she brings clarity, creativity, and commercial acumen to every conversation. Ariane’s client focus and solutions orientation is what is needed to bring together the parties in the wealth management space, arriving at mutually beneficial and rewarding relationships.