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Anoop Basavarajaiah is Director Payments- Americas, with Volante Technologies. He is a subject matter expert in payments and transaction banking, with over 18 years of experience helping leading financial institutions globally to grow and be a market disruptor. Prior to joining Volante, Anoop held senior roles in leading product strategy & development, solutions consulting and implementation management in some of the world’s largest payments and transaction banking solution providers.

Dr. Scott Hendry was appointed Senior Director of Financial Technology (FinTech) in the Funds Management and Banking Department of the Bank of Canada in June 2016. In this role, he oversees the Bank’s efforts to monitor and research developments and implications of new technologies affecting the financial sector. He previously held the role of Director of Research in the Funds Management and Banking Department and, before that, for the Financial Markets Department.

Jane Hennessy is Senior Director of Visa B2B Connect Sales, a unique multilateral cross-border B2B payments network. She focuses on providing solutions to North American financial institutions to improve the efficiency of their cross-border business payments. Prior to Visa, Jane was Head of External Alliances with G2 Web Services/Verisk Financial, a company that provides risk and compliance solutions to participants in the financial ecosystem. During her tenure she significantly grew revenue with commercial banks. Jane was previously Executive Vice President and Manager, Marketing, Strategy and Information Management, Cross-sell and International Personal Banking in the International Group, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Her responsibilities included marketing and strategy for all lines of international business including trade services and trade finance, foreign exchange, correspondent banking, international treasury management, and international personal banking.

John Jackson is the Policy and Product Lead for the Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) Renewal programme, working in the Bank of England’s Banking, Payments and Innovation Directorate. During his time at the Bank John has worked in the Markets, Financial Stability and Prudential Policy areas. He has also spent a year on secondment at the New York Fed, working in their Financial Institutions Supervision Group. John joined the RTGS Renewal programme in December 2015 as the Business Lead. He played a key role in developing the Blueprint for renewing the UK’s RTGS service and is responsible for Policy and Product development on the future shape of RTGS. In 2020 John represented the Bank on the CPMI Cross-Border Payments Task Force.

Alan Koenigsberg is global head of new payments flows for the Visa Business Solutions team. In this role, Alan is leading all aspects of commercialization of Visa B2B Connect, a unique multilateral cross-border B2B payments network, as well as opening up new payment opportunities within accounts receivable and payables space, as well as overall account-to-account B2B payments. Prior to this role, Alan was Chief Revenue Officer for Traxpay, a payments and supply chain Fintech based in Germany. During his tenure, he grew the startup to over 100 employees, playing a key role in platform development and initial go-to-market relationship building with financial institutions. Alan is an experienced payments and treasury professional who was previously Managing Director and Corporate Banking Group Executive at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML). In this role, Alan worked with global corporates to provide corporate lending and treasury management solutions to them around the world. Prior to BAML, Alan held Transaction Banking leadership roles, along with product management positions, at JPMorgan in New York and London. Prior to JPMorgan, Alan held Product Management and Operations roles at American Express.

Mr. Mehdi Manaa was appointed as the CEO of BUNA (The Arab Regional Payments Clearing and Settlement Organisation) in January 2020. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Manaa served as the Deputy Director General of the Market Infrastructure and Payments Directorate General at the European Central Bank (ECB). During his 12-year tenure at the ECB, Mr. Manaa held several other roles, including heading the Market Infrastructure Development Division as well as the T2S Programme, a program which he was involved in since its inception. Prior to his career at the ECB, Mr. Manaa held various managerial and advisory positions in the private sector focusing on payment solutions and financial market infrastructures.

Harish Natarajan is the Lead Financial Sector Specialist on Payments and Market Infrastructures in the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice. He is a core member of the cross-sectoral teams in the World Bank working on Universal Financial Access 2020, ID for Development, Government payments, Digital Economy and FinTech. Harish represents the World Bank in the working groups of the Committee on Payment Market Infrastructures (CPMI) at the Bank for International Settlements and FinTech related working groups at the Financial Stability Board (FSB). Prior to joining the World Bank, Harish worked with VISA Inc, in the South Asia region in various senior level positions in business development, operations and risk management. Prior to VISA, Harish worked in in Citigroup, Infosys and other technology companies in the areas of payment systems and retail banking. Harish holds an under-graduate degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from IIT-Madras and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management, from IIM-Calcutta, specializing in IT systems and Finance.

Samantha Pelosi joined BAFT in 2016 as a Senior Vice President to define its payments and innovation strategies and increase its visibility in financial crime compliance. Samantha currently focuses on application of innovative technologies like blockchain in banking, faster payments systems, and reversing the worldwide decline in correspondent banking relationships. Samantha came to BAFT from the payments from the Federal Reserve Board. As a manager in the payments systems division, Pelosi formulated U.S. public policy and led all initiatives related to retail payments. In the consumer protection division, she wrote regulations implementing the Dodd-Frank Act at the height of the 2008-2009 financial crisis as a senior attorney. Before the Federal Reserve, Pelosi served as global head of regulatory compliance at Travelex Global Business Payments (now Western Union Business Solutions).

Stacy Rosenthal is the Head of Payments Product Management, Transaction Banking, for Santander Bank. Stacy brings over 20 years of experience in banking and technology shaping market initiatives, launching new solutions, managing risk and product management. She is responsible for core payments products and serves as the business lead for the Payments Hub transformation initiative. She joined Santander in September 2018. Prior to Santander, Stacy held leadership roles in payments strategy, product development, industry engagement and innovation at Accenture and SWIFT. She began her banking career at Bank of America as a Treasury Solutions Technology and Product Consultant. Stacy is an industry expert and speaker on Payments, Standards and FinTech. In 2016, Stacy was honored with Global Finance’s Who’s Who in Treasury and Cash Management.

Carl Slabicki is the Head of Strategic Payment Solutions for BNY Mellon’s Treasury Services. In his current role, Carl is responsible for our Payables and Receivables product group that delivers specialized solutions to optimize payment flows for our multi-segment corporate client base, our bank clients in a private label capacity and our strategy to selectively partner with FinTechs to enhance and scale our services across the market. This product group focuses on providing holistic payment services to support the full spectrum of payables and receivables while optimizing our client’s payment flows and services by leveraging new networks and capabilities such as Real-Time Payments (RTP®), Tokenized Payments® now available with Zelle®, ACH, Check Processing and Specialized Industry Solutions.

Joanne Strobel is a managing director in Wells Fargo’s Global Payment Services (GPS) group, serving financial institutions in more than 35 countries around the world. She leads a team dedicated to technical solutions and the development of payments business strategy. Joanne also leads the network management team responsible for enterprise cash nostro accounts and aggregation strategies. Her team deploys global payments business strategies for USD, multicurrency, and treasury/FX payments, to grow the Global Payments franchise, and to broaden and deepen strategic relationships. Joanne’s team brings deep payment product expertise to global payment solutions working closely with the GPS client consultant, relationship management, and global product management teams to help identify and implement enhanced and new solutions.

Nell Campbell-Drake is a vice president in the Retail Payments Office (RPO) at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She has responsibility for the RPO’s strategic business relations, both domestic and international, vendor relations, payments innovation, product marketing and external/customer communications. She serves as the RPO’s primary liaison for external business relations and outreach, working collaboratively with other Federal Reserve product offices and industry partners. She represents the RPO and Federal Reserve Banks on a number of payments industry groups. Nell is an avid bowler and does not like looking at rainbows in the sky!

Andrew Davies is vice president, global market strategy, Financial Crime Risk Management solutions. In this role, he works with Fiserv customers around the world to design and deploy effective risk management solutions to mitigate financial crime risks with particular focus on compliance, money laundering and fraud. He is also responsible for seeking new markets and applications for Fiserv’s financial crime detection and prevention solutions. Davies joined Fiserv in 2007 through the acquisition of NetEconomy. He has worked in the software industry for more than twenty five years supporting many of the world’s largest financial institutions, both private and public. Davies’ experience covers real-time payments, front-office trading, risk mitigation of financial crime risk, settlement risk, and more.

Dan DeLuca is an SVP at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dan heads up and is responsible for the Fedwire Funds and National Services Product team which includes but is not limited to the support of expansion of hours, ISO 20022 implementation, pricing and the improvement of endpoint security measures across our product lines. Prior to joining the Fed, Dan worked at Goldman Sachs within their Operations division serving in a number or roles including heading up and leading their Trade Support, Regulatory Operations and Global Payment Operations teams supporting a number of different product lines. Dan currently chairs the Wholesale Payments Advisory Group (WPAG) on behalf of the Fed and is also a member of the central bank’s RTGS Operators Group

Richard Dzina is responsible for the on-going development and execution of product strategy for CHIPS and SVPCO, and also contributes broadly to the evolution of our payment systems. Most recently Richard served as Executive Vice President and Wholesale Product Director for the Financial Services Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In this role he had responsibility for the Fedwire Funds, Fedwire Securities, and National Settlement Services and the Bank’s Cash and Custody Function. Prior to this responsibility he led the Market Operations Monitoring and Analysis Function of the Markets Group during the financial crisis. Over the course of his 28-year career at the Fed Richard also ran the Bank’s Central Bank Services Function, led the International Cash Staff, and performed numerous other roles canvassing the Bank’s monetary policy, supervisory, and financial services responsibilities.

Hakan Eroglu is the Global Open Banking Lead for Data & Services at Mastercard. He is an expert for Open API ecosystems, Open Banking regulation, API standardization, instant and frictionless payments. Hakan is a recognized thought leader in his area of expertise. He brings 10+ years of project experience in shaping Open Banking strategies, building API-based uses cases and business models, and designing digital payment systems in Europe, MEA, Latin America and Asia. Hakan joins Mastercard from Accenture and is a board member of the MENA Fintech Association (MFTA), member of the Regional Arab Fintech Working Group, Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 Advisory Board, the Open Banking Working Group of the Euro Banking Association (EBA) and author of articles and consultations on Open API and Fintechs at Forbes and other media.

Dena Hamilton is SVP of Global Product Management for Featurespace, she brings more than 30 years of experience in payments and cards processing with specialized expertise in software product management of enterprise fraud and financial crime analytics and technologies focused in detection, prevention and operational efficiency in analyst investigations. Prior to joining Featurespace, she provided oversight for the development and delivery of fraud and financial crime detection and case management software solutions at NCR Corp., BAE Systems, Inc. and ACI Worldwide, Inc.

Damian Kuczma is an Operations and Risk Executive who recently served as Head of Payment Operations, Strategy and Transformation for Santander Bank. Previously, he oversaw the Payment Operation itself and led the transition from BAU processing to pandemic operations during the Spring of 2020 to ensure resiliency of money movement. During his 6+ year tenure at Santander Damian also served in various risk capacities within Operational Risk, Scenario Analysis and Loss Forecasting (CCAR) and Resolution Planning. Prior to Santander, he spent 9 years with Deloitte supporting external audits, control testing, and risk and advisory services within the financial services industry. Before joining Deloitte, Damian spent 3 years managing supply chain logistics for a global healthcare manufacturing company. Damian started his career as an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard as an engineer on a cutter and later performing risk and regulatory compliance

Hays Littlejohn has been serving as CEO of EBA CLEARING since 1 May 2015. Prior to his role as CEO of EBA CLEARING, Hays Littlejohn held managerial and executive positions in global transaction banking at UBS AG. Having joined the Swiss bank in 1991, Hays covered a wide range of areas during his international career at UBS, including information technology, operations, trade finance, product management, relationship management, sales, business development and market infrastructures. Hays also served on the Board of CLS and, for more than 10 years, on the Board of EBA CLEARING.

Matt Loos is the head of Wires and Clearing Products for the Global Treasury Management group. Matt joined Wells Fargo in his current role in November of 2022. He is responsible for the build out of all wires and clearing products and solutions, ensuring Wells Fargo’s payment transformation meets client and industry innovation requirements. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, att was part of SWIFT’s Strategy leadership team for two years. He was instrumental in SWIFT’s payments strategy, inclusive of market intelligence, new and emerging payments, consumer and small business payments, and the SWIFT Institute. Matt also spent 17 years at J.P. Morgan as a Senior Product Manager for Global Wholesale Payments in Treasury Services. He was the business lead for the product build out of nnovative client payment solutions and constructing a stable payment infrastructure to meet the demands of the changing global payment landscape.

Throughout his career, Dr. Michael Maxwell has successfully led multiple global market initiatives across financial services, healthcare, supply chain, B2B communications and integration. Michael is part of HCL Financial Services and is focused on the emerging challenges in banking. Ongoing initiatives include the application of machine learning – artificial intelligence to payment processes, contextual banking opportunities with Fintechs and the incorporation of new technologies into financial institutions. Michael's primary research focus is in product development practices that counteract the effects of turbulent markets on product launches. He has multiple ongoing research projects both inside and outside of HCL. Previously, Michael spent almost two decades at IBM and, prior to IBM, was part of a number of Internet start-ups for supply chain, eCommerce and financial services. Michael began his career as a Certified Public Accountant working both in public practice and in industry.

Andrew McFarlane became Payments Canada’s Executive Director of Modernization in March 2020 and is currently responsible for leading the modernization of Canada’s core clearing and settlement payments infrastructure. As a member of the Accenture team, Andrew has been a valuable contributor to Modernization of programs since early 2017, working with our member financial institutions and other stakeholders in Canada to gain their support for modernizing payments. Prior, Andrew consulted extensively in the financial services industry with Accenture in Ireland, in addition to leading the consulting firm’s open banking activities globally and shaping Accenture’s response to the Payments Services Directive 2 (PSD2) in Europe.

As regional Head of Payments Advisory, Kevin McKeever consults global companies on domestic and international cash management and payment solutions, as well as provides education and training on current market trends in global liquidity and cash management. Kevin has more than 30 years of banking experience, which includes relationship management and cash management. He joined HSBC as a Senior Sales Manager for GBM in 2004, and covered a variety of industry sectors. Prior to joining HSBC, Kevin spent 16 years with ABN AMRO Bank, including six years in Amsterdam working in ABN AMRO's Global Client and Global Transaction Services divisions. Kevin holds an MBA from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and has received the Certified Treasury Professional credential from Association for Financial Professionals (AFP).

Ms. McLaughlin-Moore joined Deutsche Bank in 2017 as Head of Operation and Technology for the Global Transaction Bank. She has recently shifted her focus towards business resiliency and operational efficiency in support of the future operating model requirements. Linda has had a long and varied career in transaction banking. She has spent the last twenty years within the Operations and Technology management structures, has spent over 17 years in representing JPMorgan Chase in Asia and UK. Linda started her career in Sales and Product Management across the spectrum of trade finance, trust, asset services and cash management.

Stacy Rosenthal is the Head of Payments Product Management, Transaction Banking, for Santander Bank. Stacy brings over 20 years of experience in banking and technology shaping market initiatives, launching new solutions, managing risk and product management. She is responsible for core payments products and serves as the business lead for the Payments Hub transformation initiative. She joined Santander in September 2018. Prior to Santander, Stacy held leadership roles in payments strategy, product development, industry engagement and innovation at Accenture and SWIFT. She began her banking career at Bank of America as a Treasury Solutions Technology and Product Consultant. Stacy is an industry expert and speaker on Payments, Standards and FinTech. In 2016, Stacy was honored with Global Finance’s Who’s Who in Treasury and Cash Management.

Katherine Zaveri is Senior Vice President at StoneX Payments, where she specializes in helping financial institutions, corporates, and development organizations make payments around the world. In 2019, Katherine was the first from StoneX to participate in the BAFT Future Leaders Program. Since then, she has spoken on several BAFT panels, speaking on topics ranging from cross-border payments to the future of the workplace in a post-pandemic world. Prior to joining StoneX, Katherine worked under Ray Dalio at Bridgewater. She has lived and worked throughout Latin America and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.