Her career rests on four pillars: delivering core financial-system platforms and AI in institutional banking; applying AI with robust guardrails and model risk governance; cross-continental regulatory expertise spanning US, UK/EU, and Asia‑Pacific regimes; and industry leadership through speaking, judging, and peer recognition.

She holds a BSc in Computer Science from Imo State University, an MSc in Management of Information Systems from LSE, and executive certificates from MIT Sloan focused on organisational transformation and applying AI in business and society.

Chika Anajemba is an enterprise AI and banking transformation leader with 18 years in financial services technology, including roles at Citi and Goldman Sachs, now focusing on AI governance and regulation in finance.

She emphasizes production‑grade AI with guardrails, continuous testing, structured versioning, and upfront tagging/data engineering to ensure relevance and reduce downstream failures.

Her work as a cross‑continental regulatory technologist translates legal requirements into engineering standards, shaping and challenging standards with bodies like DTCC and ISDA across regimes such as the US OCC, UK/EU Brexit, EMIR, CFTC, JFSA, HKMA, and MAS.

Future focus involves advising AI‑driven fintechs and continuing as an industry voice to promote responsible, compliant financial AI and platform leadership across global markets.

Key milestones include boosting Asia‑Pacific reporting accuracy at Citi, surfacing a regulatory reporting defect that influenced industry architecture, delivering real‑time OTC derivatives reporting at Goldman, leading data lineage under an OCC consent order with Brexit trading continuity, and modernizing Citi’s enterprise generative AI platform to serve over 300,000 institutional clients.

Her industry leadership spans co‑authoring AI strategy, public speaking, panel moderation, and judging tech competitions, with peer recognition for AI scale and governance.