Eleni Steinman

Eleni Steinman is a payments and stablecoin executive based in New York City. She is Head of Stablecoins at Lead Bank and was a co-founder and chief executive officer of Loop Crypto, a stablecoin payments company acquired by Lead Bank in 2025.^[1]​^[2]​

职业生涯

Government and Consulting

Steinman worked as a financial specialist at the Export-Import Bank of the United States from June 2010 to June 2014, then as director of its Budget Division from June 2014 to March 2015.^[1]

During that period, she completed two government details through the Presidential Management Fellowship program: as an international financial economist at the U.S. Department of State in 2011, where she received a Meritorious Honor Award, and as a program examiner in the Commerce Branch of the Office of Management and Budget in 2012.^[1]​

From March 2015 to May 2016, Steinman was a senior consultant at FI Consulting. She later worked as a summer strategy associate at Hugo & Hoby in 2017 and as a summer analyst at JPMorganChase in 2009.^[1]​

Blockchain Infrastructure and Loop Crypto

Steinman joined blockchain infrastructure company bloXroute as a strategy and operations manager in June 2018. She became its head of strategy and operations in July 2020 and held that position until November 2021.^[1]​

In November 2021, she co-founded Loop Crypto and became its chief executive officer, serving in the role through December 2025.^[1] Loop provided merchants with a way to accept stablecoin payments for different billing models, including subscriptions with automatic payments, and was backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).^[1]

Steinman announced that Loop was joining Lead Bank in a post dated December 10, 2025; in June 2026, she described Lead as having acquired Loop the previous year.^[2]​^[1]​

Lead Bank

Steinman became Head of Stablecoins at Lead Bank in December 2025, where she leads the bank’s stablecoins function.^[1] In June 2026, she described the bank’s platform as being built to support real-time movement of money and said Lead had partnered with Mastercard to expand settlement capabilities.^[1]​

In public discussions of payments, Steinman has distinguished card authorization from settlement: a card payment may appear instantaneous to the user, while the actual movement of money happens later. She has also discussed the role of payment networks in domestic and cross-border transfers.^[1]​

教育背景

Steinman earned an MBA from Yale School of Management. At the University of Florida, she completed a master’s degree in finance, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in finance, and a Bachelor of Arts in political science.

She reports that she was one of 20 students accepted into a four-year combined MSF/BSBA program, graduated magna cum laude, and received a full merit scholarship.^[1]​