Steffen Vollert is co-founder and chief executive of Volt, a London, England, company that lets merchants take payments straight from customers' bank accounts. He took over as interim chief executive in September 2024, when Tom Greenwood left to lead VX2, a stablecoin settlement venture spun out of Volt. Read our review of Volt.
Payments Work at Adyen before Volt
He worked at Adyen, the Dutch payments company, before co-founding Volt in 2019. At Volt he served as chief technology officer and then chief operating officer.
Arguing for Variable Recurring Payments in the UK
He argues that account-to-account payments in the UK still trail cards. "I think in the UK there is still a lot of work to be done for open banking to succeed and capture effective market share from the cards," he told Tech.eu in 2025. He pointed to delays to variable recurring payments, which would let a customer approve repeat payments from a bank account once, and to unclear rules on authorised push payment fraud.
