Elfriede Sixt is an auditor and tax advisor based in Vienna, Austria. She passed the US CPA exam in 1993 and has subsequently worked for many years as a partner and managing director at Ernst & Young in Vienna. Ms. Sixt has been dealing with FinTech for many years. She also deals with topics such as crowdfunding and has made her own contributions to this area, for example with her book “Swarm Economy and Crowdfunding”, which was published by SpringerGabler Verlag in 2014. Her second book, which dealt with cryptocurrencies entitled “Bitcoins and other decentralised transaction systems: Blockchains as the basis of a crypto-economy” was published in September 2016.
Elfriede Sixt has additionally been involved with cybercrime since 2018. She co-founded the association EFRI (European Funds Recovery Initiative), which deals with cyber fraud against consumers and also addresses the problem of money laundering among European financial service providers.