# Nguyen Nguyen

> Dr. Nguyen An Nguyen is the founder and CEO of Trusting Social, an AI-fintech company that helps financial institutions assess and serve consumers who may have limited conventional credit histories. Trained in econometrics at Rice University and formerly part of Barclays' global credit-risk work in New York, he founded the company in 2013. Trusting Social says its risk profiles now cover more than one billion consumers across India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, while its product range has expanded from alternative credit scoring into digital identity, onboarding, fraud prevention, and generative-AI agents.

- **Role:** Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Trusting Social
- **Organizations:** Trusting Social, Barclays
- **Nationality:** Vietnamese
- **Education:** Ph.D. in Economics / Econometrics, Rice University
- **Known for:** Founded Trusting Social in 2013., Built a regional fintech platform whose official company site says its credit-risk profiles cover more than one billion consumers across four Asian markets., Expanded Trusting Social from alternative credit scoring into eKYC, digital onboarding, fraud prevention, portfolio tools, and generative-AI agents.

## Career timeline

- **2008** — Completed doctoral work at Rice University; Rice faculty records identify Nguyen Nguyen as a 2008 doctoral graduate.
- **Before 2013** — Worked in Barclays' Global Decision Science / global credit-risk organization in New York, developing credit- and fraud-risk models.
- **2013** — Founded Trusting Social and began building its first alternative credit score.
- **2020** — Trusting Social reported reaching credit-score coverage of one billion consumers and launched an eKYC solution.
- **2022** — Trusting Social announced a $65 million strategic investment from Masan Group subsidiary The Sherpa Company.
- **2023** — Trusting Social introduced Agent Foundry, a platform for trainable generative-AI agents for enterprises.
- **2025** — At an IFC financial-inclusion conference, Nguyen reflected on a decade of alternative-data scoring in Vietnam and argued that the next objective was lowering the cost of credit.

## Achievements

- Founded Trusting Social in 2013.
- Built a regional fintech platform whose official company site says its credit-risk profiles cover more than one billion consumers across four Asian markets.
- Expanded Trusting Social from alternative credit scoring into eKYC, digital onboarding, fraud prevention, portfolio tools, and generative-AI agents.
- Led Trusting Social through a $65 million strategic investment announced with Masan Group's The Sherpa Company in 2022.
- Received a 2003 research grant associated with the Social Science Research Council and MacArthur Foundation, as listed on his public LinkedIn profile.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Trusting Social announced a partnership with Dien May Xanh to offer its EVO Money digital cash-loan experience through more than 3,000 stores in Vietnam.
- **2026-02** — Nguyen publicly reflected on thirteen years of Trusting Social, writing that the company had grown to roughly 400 people and had helped 200 million consumers; these figures are his own account.
- **2025-10** — Nguyen published a reflection on Vietnam's consumer-credit data ecosystem after speaking at the IFC Digital Financial Inclusion Conference 2025.

## Links

- Website: https://trustingsocial.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nguyenannguyen

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Last updated: 2026-08-18