• Led by visionary founder Shavez Ahmed Siddiqui, LQUIDPAY wins top honours at the Leaders in E-Business Awards for its self-custodial, borderless DeFi banking model.
  • LQUIDPAY’s decentralised banking platform—offering Visa crypto cards, on-chain savings, and global access—is now reaching users in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.

Founder and CEO of LQUIDPAY Deobank and a visionary fintech entrepreneur, Shavez Ahmed Siddiqui, has established a new benchmark in decentralized finance (DeFi) and won numerous international awards for his innovative contributions to digital banking.

Under Siddiqui's direction, LQUIDPAY Deobank won "Fintech Company of the Year" at the esteemed Leaders in E-Business Awards in Dubai this May.

The bank was honoured for its innovative approach to transparent, self-custodial, and borderless financial services.

With features like self-custodial vaults for complete asset control, Visa-enabled virtual and physical cards for international cryptocurrency spending, on-chain yield savings with returns ranging from 6 to 14% APY, instant crypto on/off-ramps, and worldwide ATM withdrawals via NFC-enabled cards that launch this year, the platform is hailed as the first fully decentralised on-chain bank in history.

Siddiqui's influence was acknowledged on June 28 in Lucknow, India, where he was given the Times Leadership Award 2025.

"Having financial sovereignty shouldn't be a luxury. Siddiqui underlined, "It should be a default," as he and LQUIDPAY work to reshape the financial landscape for the next billion people.

This honour demonstrates his dedication to advancing India's digital future and his goal of ensuring that everyone has access to financial sovereignty.

With more than ten years of experience in blockchain, Siddiqui is a self-taught technologist whose goal is to create a decentralised, global financial ecosystem that would enable the 1.4 billion unbanked people worldwide.

LQUIDPAY With plans for additional global expansion and new enterprise-grade DeFi solutions, Deobank's quick expansion is already opening up financial access throughout Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.

Edited by Annette George