The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today named Sultan Meghji as the agency's first Chief Innovation Officer, charged with leading the FDIC's efforts to promote the adoption of innovative technologies across the financial services sector. Mr. Meghji co-founded Neocova, a financial technology firm providing secure, cloud-native, artificial intelligence-based software for community banks and credit unions. In addition, he worked on an aid mission to help implement digital banking in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and worked with fintechs and central banks to create peer-to-peer banking solutions for hundreds of thousands of people in underserved areas of Africa and Central Asia.