Georgi Balinov

Senior Managing Director, Tech Investment Banking

Georgi Balinov is a Senior Managing Director of Tech Investment Banking at SVB Securities focusing on Financial Technology.
 
Georgi joined the firm in 2022 with more than 18 years experience dedicated to the technology industry. He was most recently a Managing Director and Head of Global PayTech Banking at Barclays. Previously, he was Head of FinTech Banking for the Americas at BofA Merrill Lynch where he was responsible for financial technology investment banking coverage across the payments, financial software, capital markets tech and data sectors. His representative advisory transactions include Insight Partners’ investment in NMI, Zego’s sale to Global Payments, Kount’s sale to Equifax, Blackstone’s acquisition of Thomson Reuters F&R, Fiserv’s merger with First Data, Global Payments’ merger with TSYS, SilverLake’s acquisition of Blackhawk, among others. His initial public offering execution experience includes the IPOs for AvidXchange, Remitly, MeridianLink, Riskified, Marqeta, nCino, Bill.com, Alkami, Markit, CBOE, MSCI, Visa, Netspend, Verisk, among others. Georgi has been deeply involved in increasing visibility for the LGBT community in financial services, through involvement in immigration and marriage equality, and through a variety of organizations in his birth country of Bulgaria.

He received his Bachelor of Science from New York University’s Stern Undergraduate College and started his career as an analyst on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange.