Sibos

Jennie Baisch is a member of Swift's Global Securities team, based in Frankfurt, where she focuses on business development, industry engagement, and market strategy across the global securities ecosystem. She works closely with financial institutions, market infrastructures, and industry bodies to drive collaboration and innovation in post-trade services and securities processing. In her role, Jennie supports strategic industry initiatives related to securities settlement, interoperability, standards adoption, and digital asset innovation. She regularly engages with the community to understand evolving market needs and facilitate industry-wide dialogue on the future of securities markets. Drawing on extensive experience in industry consultations, thought leadership, and customer engagement, she helps shape discussions around market modernization, efficiency, and resilience. Jennie is an active contributor to industry conferences and forums, where she moderates and participates in discussions on securities market transformation, standards, and emerging technologies. As a strong advocate for collaboration and industry harmonization, she is passionate about leveraging standards to enable greater connectivity, automation, and innovation across global financial markets.

Laura Cote is a senior vice president in U.S. Bank's Wealth, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking business line - the highest revenue producing business line at the bank. She leads the Investment Services Product group, comprising team members based in the U.S. and Europe, who develop and deliver all product for our Global Fund Services and Global Corporate Trust divisions, including ETFs, alternative funds, and crypto/stablecoin. Prior to U.S. Bank, Laura spent more than 16 years at Brown Brothers Harriman, in positions including head of Product Marketing, and Investor Services relationship manager and business development officer. Laura holds a B.A. from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.

Camille Papillard is the deputy head of Financial Intermediaries & Corporates Client Line. In her role, she defines and steers the strategic direction of the Banks & Brokers segment while overseeing risk management, client selectivity, and portfolio optimisation. She also drives alignment and execution of key initiatives across Custody, Cash, and Debt products to ensure cohesive growth. Prior to this Camille was the head of the Financial Intermediaries & Corporates Client Line for the EMEA region where she was responsible for the go-to-market strategy, products and solutions for banks and brokers clients in the region. Before this, Camille was head of sell side custody solutions and of clearing and settlement product teams, where she was in charge of developing transversal solutions involving custody and related products for custodians, banks and brokers. She was leading a team of experts covering cash equity clearing projects, local and global settlement and other specific custody-related topics. Camille has more than 18 years of experience in the banking industry. She joined BNP Paribas Securities Services in 2017 and held various roles as a pricing and profitability analyst and a product manager. Prior to that Camille worked at BNP Paribas’ global financial management department, reviewing the group’s strategic acquisitions and managing regulatory capital, after four years at the General Inspection (Internal Audit) team of Société Générale Group. Camille holds a Master in Management from ESCP Business School.

Ruchi serves as Head of Technology for Funding, Payment & Strategy at Royal Bank of Canada, leading funding operations, payment infrastructure modernization, and strategic planning. With over 2 decades of financial services experience, she has driven major transformation initiatives across Capital Markets technology and payment systems. Recognized internationally as Technology Innovator of the Year by Waters Technology, Ruchi is known for her expertise in operations & delivery execution, payment innovation, and capital optimization.

Daniel is the Head of Trust and Securities Services (TSS) for APAC & MEA and the Global Head of Depositary Receipts (DR). He leads the TSS business in APAC MEA with responsibility for the business strategy, financial performance, people leadership and oversight of all aspects of the business. In addition to his regional TSS role, Daniel is responsible for Depositary Receipts on a global basis, a core Product of TSS primary and secondary market services offering. Daniel joined Deutsche Bank in 2012 and has over 20 years of corporate and investment banking experience. In previous roles he has worked across equity, equity-linked and equity derivative capital markets in origination and structuring roles covering developed and emerging markets . He has held senior leadership roles in London, New York and Singapore.

Julia McKenny assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of the International Securities Services Association on 16 June 2025. She holds a Bachelor of Education from Sydney University and a Bachelor of Laws from Newcastle University, Australia. Julia completed her legal training at the College of Law, Australia, before being admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Julia's career in Securities Services began at JP Morgan in 2004, leading to significant regional and global roles with Northern Trust, State Street, and Standard Chartered Bank. Upon returning to London, she further honed her expertise through leadership positions at TMF Group and Accenture and worked with the Prime Broking team at Morgan Stanley. Her career highlights include serving as General Counsel, leading strategic advocacy initiatives, and ensuring regulatory compliance within complex international frameworks. Julia is also recognized as a thought leader in the Securities Services industry, contributing regularly to Global Custodian and other leading publications.

Olivier Dazard is heading the ‘Customer and Partners Security and Resilience’ team. This team drives the evolution and support of the Customer and Partner Security Control Frameworks and the associated Independent Assessment Framework (IAF). Those frameworks are the heart of the Customer Security Program (CSP) and the Shared Infrastructure Program (SIP) at Swift. The CSP helps financial institutions ensure their defences against cyberattacks are up to date and effective. Before joining the CSP program in 2016, Olivier was a Lead IT internal auditor for over 10 years involved in many Swift internal and Partners certification engagements. During this period, Olivier was also leading the Service Bureau inspections program at SWIFT. Olivier has earlier been involved in many other IT functions during his 30+ years career at SWFT. Finally, Olivier holds a degree in Computing sciences from the University of Namur (Belgium) and is CISA certified.

Jane Fraser, DBE, is the Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Citi, the world's most global bank, which serves clients in more than 180 countries and jurisdictions. Since becoming CEO in March 2021, Jane has launched a multi-year strategy to transform, simplify and modernize the bank for the digital age. Jane is committed to making Citi the preeminent banking partner for institutions with cross-border needs, a global leader in wealth management and a valued personal bank in its home market of the U.S. She was named Chair of the Board in October 2025. During her over 20-year career at Citi, Jane has held leadership roles across Citi’s consumer and institutional businesses. Before becoming CEO, she was President of Citi and CEO of the Global Consumer Bank. She also served as Global Head of Strategy and M&A, CEO of Citi’s Private Bank and CEO of Citigroup Latin America. Before joining Citi in 2004, Jane was a Partner at McKinsey & Company. Jane is Chair of the Financial Services Forum and Co-Chair of the U.S.–Saudi Business Council. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Business Roundtable, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Partnership for New York City. She is also a member of the Group of Thirty, Monetary Authority of Singapore’s International Advisory Panel, Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors, the Stanford Global Advisory Board and the Economic Club of New York. Jane was awarded a damehood by King Charles III for her services to the financial sector. She has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an M.A. in economics from Cambridge University. She is married with two children.

Javier Pérez-Tasso is Chief Executive Officer of Swift, the global cooperative enabling secure and reliable processing of over 11 billion financial messages each year for its community of more than 11,500 institutions. Since his appointment as CEO in July 2019, Pérez-Tasso has driven the introduction of Swift’s strategy to enable instant and frictionless transactions worldwide, in close alignment with the G20’s goals for enhancing the speed, cost, transparency, and accessibility of cross-border payments. Under his leadership, Swift has enhanced its product portfolio with new solutions that reduce industry costs, increase transaction speed and transparency, and improve user experience. He has overseen the introduction of Swift Go to provide greater access to fast, predictable and secure cross-border payments to consumers and small businesses; AI powered anomaly detection tools to identify and stop fraudulent payments and solutions that transform the transparency of securities settlement transactions. He also successfully steered Swift through the start of the migration to ISO 20022 for cross-border payments and reporting – a major milestone for the global payments industry – and the launch of Swift’s Transaction Manager, which enables end-to-end transaction orchestration. During Pérez-Tasso’s tenure, Swift has led multiple forward-looking collaborative innovation initiatives, including in the emerging areas of tokenized assets and central bank digital currencies. These have successfully shown the critical role that Swift can play in facilitating interoperability and the seamless global flow of value, regardless of the form it takes. Since joining Swift in 1995, Pérez-Tasso has held various roles, including Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Executive, Americas & UK. While in this position he was executive sponsor of the Customer Security Programme, a key element of Swift’s ongoing commitment to operational resilience and a model of industry collaboration in the fight against cybercrime.

Dan Katz has been the IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director since October 2025. In that role, he leads the Fund’s work on multilateral surveillance and related policies, including on monetary policy, financial markets, debt, and international economic integration. He also oversees bilateral surveillance for many global systemically important economies and large lending programs and represents the Fund at multilateral fora like the G7 and G20. Mr. Katz most recently served as Chief of Staff at the United States Department of the Treasury. He was the principal advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on a wide range of domestic and international matters, including on some of the most consequential international economic issues involving the United States. Mr. Katz has a long association with Treasury that stretches over more than a decade, including roles as a Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs, Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for International Markets, and a policy advisor in the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. In addition to his work at Treasury, Mr. Katz spent several years in the private sector, where he worked at a global macro hedge fund, and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. He was also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute focusing on central banking, international economic issues, and economic statecraft, and served as an advisor to the Commander of U.S. forces in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mr. Katz received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from New York University School of Law.

Graeme is a Managing Director in the Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) at J.P. Morgan, and is an advisor on strategic programs for the firm. Graeme is also the Chair of the Board of Directors at Swift, where he has served as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the global cooperative since 2023. Prior to his current role at J.P. Morgan, Graeme was Managing Director and Chief Controls Manager for the Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) at J.P. Morgan, where he led a global team of 1,400 controls professionals that design and execute the controls framework and governance for all businesses in the CIB. During a 35 year career at J.P. Morgan, Graeme held a variety of operations, technology and infrastructure leadership roles, in the UK, the US and globally, and he is a passionate supporter and senior contributor to the firms’ people, culture, and diversity programmes. Graeme graduated from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, with an Honors Degree in Statistics.

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Simone Löfgen is Global Head of Payment Platforms at Commerzbank AG, where she leads the end to end responsibility for the bank’s global payment platforms, covering product strategy, technology, IT operations and large scale transformation across retail and corporate banking, as well as the international banking network. With nearly two decades of experience in international Corporate and Transaction Banking, Simone has held several senior leadership roles across geographies and functions, including Head of Corporate Banking at Commerzbank France and Head of International Platforms. Her career spans the intersection of payments, technology, client proposition and large scale operating model transformation. In Commerzbank’s group wide transformation, she drives the modernisation of payment infrastructures, combining platform based technology, resilience and regulatory compliance with a strong focus on client impact and industrialised delivery. Simone represents Commerzbank in key German and European industry forums, contributing strategic perspectives on the future of payments, financial market infrastructures and cross border transaction services. She is the Chair of the EBA Clearing Board and of the German SWIFT NMG is actively engaged in shaping the evolution of European payment and settlement ecosystems.

Thomas Hemsley is a Domain Specialist for Financial Services Smart Apps at Pegasystems Inc., with two decades of expertise in payments operations and technology. At Pegasystems, Thomas is dedicated to modernising Swift payments exceptions and investigations, leveraging his extensive experience and active involvement in Swift’s Case Management industry community. As a former Product Owner at Barclays, he led the strategic roadmap for the payments exceptions and investigations case management application. His work included the adoption of new ISO 20022 messaging standards, significantly enhancing operational efficiency and regulatory compliance. Thomas's passion for transformational change and his commitment to reducing costs and friction in payment processes make him a leading voice in the industry. Thomas has successfully driven major change initiatives, including regulatory events and the introduction of new products and services, demonstrating his ability to deliver impactful transformations in the financial services sector. His innovative approach and deep understanding of the payments landscape continue to advance industry standards and practices.

Sean has worked at Citi for the past 22 years and is based in the Citi Dublin Service Centre. Currently managing a team of over 70 people around the Globe, he has great experience in managing Client Service and Operations teams. With stong experience in vendor Management, he is currently leading for the Service organization, critical workstreams such as Payment Validation and Investigations transformation. From the outset, he has been part of the Case Expert Group and Case Pilot Group, partnership closely in the CARS acceleration programme to help increase industry awareness and adoption of Case. It is a privilege for him to be invited back to SIBOS this year and he is really looking forward to the panel discussion and the great networking opportunities during the week.

Head of Transaction Banking Product, TD Securities Chris is responsible for driving transaction banking product initiatives to deliver best-in-class capabilities for TD Bank Group’s (TDBG) corporate, commercial, and institutional clients across the Canadian Commercial Bank, U.S. Commercial Bank, and TD Securities. He is accountable for product management, development and strategy, P&L management, and go-to-market efforts for transaction banking products across TDBG, including payments and receivables, deposits and liquidity, global trade finance, commercial card issuance, merchant services, data and analytics, and digital channels and client reporting. Previously, Chris served as Senior Vice President, Head of Treasury and Trade Products and Services, U.S. Commercial Banking, for TD Bank, leading product management, technical sales, market management, and customer onboarding and servicing. Prior to TD, Chris held leadership roles in product management and market management in Citi's Services division. He launched and managed innovative solutions across payments and receivables, commercial credit cards, eCommerce merchant acquiring, and embedded finance. Chris also served as Citi’s representative on industry bodies including The Clearing House’s Real Time Payments Business Committee, Early Warning Systems advisory panels, and the U.S. Faster Payments Council.

Bruno Mellado is the Global Head of Payments and Receivables at BNP Paribas, where he leads the strategic development and expansion of the Cash Management product offering across Europe. With a strong focus on innovation and client-centric solutions, he plays a key role in shaping the future of transaction banking within the group. Before joining BNP Paribas, Bruno served as an advisor to the United States and Canadian Federal Governments, specializing in technology and project management. His expertise in digital transformation and operational efficiency has been instrumental in driving impactful change in both public and private sectors. Bruno holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Belgium) and a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Administration and Marketing from Queen’s University (Canada).

Thomas Dugauquier is leading Swift’s product definition for Digital Assets. Prior to this role, he has been performing various positions at Swift in product definition supporting notably the ISO20022 adoption and Swift solutions for Market Infrastructures. He also recently held the position of Chief of staff and helped coordinating the definition of the instant and frictionless strategy laid out by Swift’s executives.

Jack Pouderoyen is Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Swift, a position he has held since November 2025. He leads Swift's digital assets strategy, guiding the company's approach to digital assets and digital currencies across the global banking sector. His team is responsible for the design and development of the Swift ledger and has previously led tokenized asset and blockchain interoperability efforts within the Swift community. Jack has held various roles across Strategy and Innovation at Swift since November 2021. Prior to joining Swift, Jack spent nearly a decade at Deutsche Bank, where he was most recently a Vice President within the Global Transaction Banking business.

Frank Van Driessche is Head of ISO 20022 Practice. Frank Van Driessche joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in late 2018 to focus on the adoption of ISO 20022 by the Fedwire Funds Service. He joined the FedNow team in 2019 to lead the ISO 20022 implementation for the Federal Reserve Banks’ instant payments platform. Frank represents the Federal Reserve Financial Services on a series of national and international ISO 20022 expert groups and currently chairs the CPMI ISO 20022 data harmonisation panel. Previously Frank held positions at SWIFT where he was responsible for the global adoption of ISO 20022 by payment market infrastructures, and at the European Banking Federation as senior advisor during the creation of SEPA. Frank holds a master’s degree of the Brussels Solvay Business School.

Dana Brants is Head of Standards and Market Infrastructures at Swift. She leads global teams responsible for the strategy, governance, implementation, and adoption of financial messaging standards, as well as Swift's engagement with market infrastructures worldwide. In her role, Dana is responsible for shaping and delivering Swift’s standards strategy and market infrastructure engagement, ensuring the evolution, adoption, and implementation of financial messaging standards that support richer data, interoperability, innovation, and resilience across the global financial ecosystem. She works closely with market infrastructures, financial institutions, industry bodies, and operators to drive community-led standards development and industry modernization initiatives.. A member of SWIFT since 2006, Dana has held leadership roles across Standards, Communications, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Digital Transformation. Most recently, she led the Customer Interactions Tribe, overseeing Swift's digital customer engagement and service experience capabilities. Since 2022, Dana has served as Swift's Senior Sponsor for Gender Diversity, advocating for a more inclusive workplace and greater awareness of diversity across the organisation. Dana previously worked at the Bank of New York in Belgium. She holds degrees from KU Leuven and the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and lives in Belgium with her family.

Eric Altafim is a member of the Partners Program, has been an Officer at the Itaú Unibanco Group since 2017. He is currently responsible for the Corporate Client, Foreign Exchange, Funding, Derivatives, Energy, Carbon Credit, and Digital Assets desks. He has also served as Officer of the Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets Association (ANBIMA) since 2022.

Mónica Ramírez de Arellano is the Head of International Banking at Anchorage Digital. She leads Stablecoin Solutions for Banks, which enables licensed international financial institutions to access secure, efficient U.S. dollar cross-border payments and settlement through a trusted partnership with Anchorage Digital Bank. She brings over 15 years of experience spanning digital assets, investment banking, and law. Prior to joining Anchorage Digital, Mónica served as the Head of Digital Assets Strategy at BNY. She previously held senior leadership roles at Blockchain.com, including Chief of Staff to the founding CTO and lead for M&A and International Markets in Latin America. Earlier in her career Mónica practiced private equity fund formation law at Debevoise & Plimpton and worked in investment banking at Lazard. She holds an MBA/MA from The Wharton School, a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and an A.B. from Princeton University.

John Jackson is Head of the Wholesale Payments Division at the Bank of England. He is responsible for setting the Bank's long-term strategy for innovation in sterling payments and promoting modernisation in the wider payments landscape. During his 25 years at the Bank John has worked in the Payments, 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. He was the Product Lead for the Bank’s RTGS Renewal programme.

With over 25 years of experience across Capital Markets, Asset Management and Transaction Banking, Olivier brings strong expertise in technology, operations and large scale transformation. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Societe Generale – FORGE in February 2026, where he oversees IT, Operations, Information Security and the Strategic Project Portfolio. Olivier began his career in Capital Markets IT, holding several positions in Equity Derivatives before joining Asset Management in 2011. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Lyxor until mid 2018, then led IT Risks and Production for Global Banking and Investor Solutions. In October 2020, he was appointed Global CIO of Global Transaction and Payment Services, before becoming Co Head of Technology and Operations for Financing and Transaction Banking in September 2021. As COO of SG FORGE, Olivier is responsible for scaling the platform in a secure, robust and industrialized manner, with a strong focus on operational excellence and cybersecurity, supporting the development of digital native financial market infrastructures. Olivier holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris and from INSA Lyon. Olivier was a speaker at iGTB Oxford School en 2024: Press-Release-20.05.2024-iGTB-Oxford.pdf Past Speakers - Wholesale Banking

Nick Kerigan is Managing Director, Head of Innovation at Swift. In that role, he is responsible for leading Swift’s response to disruptive trends such as tokenised assets and digital money. Nick has a wealth of experience from over 20 years working in payments and banking across developed and emerging markets. Prior to joining Swift in July 2020, he was Managing Director for Future Payments at Barclays, creating next-gen customer experiences and partnering with FinTechs. His expertise is in digital payments, growth strategies and product development, grounded in behavioural trends. Nick is a well-known thought leader and financial sector influencer.

Bernadette Ksepka currently serves as senior vice president and deputy head of product management for the Federal Reserve System’s FedNow Service, a real-time clearing and settlement service developed by the Federal Reserve Banks to support instant payments in the United States. She leads FedNow product management activities which include understanding market needs for instant payments, supporting development of value-added services, establishing industry partnerships, and ensuring financial institution readiness to support adoption and innovation for the service. Ksepka holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics from Rutgers University and an M.B.A from Seton Hall University

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With over 17 years at J.P. Morgan, Andrew has held management roles spanning Global Custody, Cash, Liquidity, and FX, with experience across London, Hong Kong, and New York. Notably, he previously ran Securities Services Cash & Liquidity, growing the deposit base from $200BN to $250BN in just two years, delivering 200 hours of deadline improvements to enhance client experience, and achieved three consecutive record years of NII revenues—projected to reach $2.34BN in 2025. Before joining J.P. Morgan, Andrew spent eight years at Citi in Operations, Technology, and Global Transaction Services Product, including launching Citi’s online money market fund portal for corporate clients in EMEA. Andrew graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BCom (Hons) in Business Studies & Accounting and is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment. A passionate advocate for inclusion, Andrew is a member of the firm’s LGBTQ+ Executive Forum and has been deeply engaged with PRIDE throughout his career. He was a founding member and past co-chair of PRIDE Hong Kong, growing membership to over 1,000—representing one in four JPMC employees in Hong Kong. Outside of work, Andrew is energized by travel—having visited 68 countries and all 50 U.S. states—and is a dedicated Barry’s Bootcamp enthusiast, with over 550 classes since June 2021. Growing up on a farm in rural Scotland, inspired by his mother’s work as a local bank teller, Andrew’s upbringing sparked his lifelong passion for banking and community.

Campbell Pryde leads the XBRL US consortium, bringing significant experience in technology development, accounting and finance as President and CEO. Prior to his current position, Campbell led the development and maintenance of taxonomies as Chief Standards Officer. He has been involved with XBRL since 2001 and served as Chairman of the XBRL US Domain Steering Committee during the critical initial build of the US GAAP Taxonomy under contract with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Campbell subsequently led XBRL US’ important role in the implementation of XBRL for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) which was launched in 2021. Campbell was one of the authors of the original XBRL technical specification and has an integral role in the enhancement of the XBRL specification to support more types of data and to optimize structured data use with artificial intelligence tools. He joined XBRL US from Morgan Stanley, where, as Executive Director in the Institutional Securities Group, he managed the equity research XBRL-based valuation framework. Before Morgan Stanley, Campbell was a Partner in the Risk and Advisory Practice of KPMG LLP. He is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Tibor Bartels is a Managing Director and Head of Transaction Services Americas at ING Wholesale Bank. He leads ING’s payments, cash management, liquidity management, and trade finance activities across the region, working with multinational corporates navigating complex global operating environments. A frequent contributor to industry thought leadership, Tibor focuses on treasury transformation, AI adoption, and the evolving role of financial institutions in global trade and payments.

Xavier Heyvaert is Sales Director at IntellectEU, where he is responsible for the company’s global sales strategy, the management of strategic client relationships, and the development of key partnerships across the financial ecosystem. In this role, he works closely with banks, corporates, fintechs, treasury management system providers, and payment service providers to accelerate the adoption of next-generation payment and connectivity solutions. He is actively involved in evolving IntellectEU’s integration platform from traditional Swift connectivity to a multi-rail model, enabling seamless orchestration across real-time payment networks, APIs, stablecoins, tokenised deposits, cards, and wallet-based solutions. His focus is on helping institutions transform cross-border payments into a competitive advantage through improved interoperability, speed, and customer experience. With over 20 years of experience in financial services, Xavier brings deep expertise at the intersection of payments, technology, and commercial strategy. He spent more than two decades at Swift, where he held senior roles across technical support, pre-sales, account management, consulting services, and program management. As Senior Program Manager, he led complex transformation initiatives for global financial institutions, combining business, technology, and data-driven approaches. Xavier holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Université Libre de Bruxelles and a degree in Finance from ICHEC Brussels Management School.

Pratiksha Pathak is an ISO 20022 expert and Head of Payments at RedCompass Labs. She helps some of the world’s biggest banks solve complex payment challenges. Combining deep technical expertise with strategic leadership, Pratiksha modernizes payment systems and drives innovation.

Stephen Lindsay joined Swift in 2007 and currently leads the Product Management function for Swift’s range of Digital Asset products, which aim to incorporate the benefits of distributed ledger technology into Swift’s financial industry ecosystem. Prior to that, Stephen led the business stream evolving Swift’s strategic platform to enable instant and frictionless cross-border transactions, and also led the product group providing solutions for market infrastructures. Stephen has a longstanding interest in industry standards and led the workstream migrating the Swift community to ISO 20022 for cross-border payments. Prior to joining Swift Stephen spent 17 years as a technical architect and product manager for a financial software vendor, specializing in the design and implementation of payments and integration software for an international market.

Anu is a Payments Strategy and Technology Director at EY LLP in the UK, with over 17 years of experience in financial services. She focuses on complex transformations, M&A integration, strategy development and execution, and new payment product design for financial services and cross-sector clients. She has an emphasis across retail, commercial and investment banking, and wider payments and transactional banking, with exposure across Europe, America, Africa and Asia. Passionate about long-term value creation, Anu helps clients design and deliver payments transformation, supporting CEOs, CTOs and CIOs with their growth, compliance and modernization agendas. Anu's broad range of experience in payments technologies includes Agentic Payments and Agentic Commerce, Real-Time Payments, ISO 20022, Swift GPI, RTGS, Open Banking, UK New Payments Vision, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), CBDCs, digital assets and fraud. Her extensive experience also spans corporate treasury services, merchant services and payments infrastructure. Additionally, Anu manages key payments sector alliances and advises FinTech firms.

Alan Trefler is the Founder and CEO of Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA). Pega is shaping how the world’s largest enterprises design, run, and continuously evolve AI transformation. As a visionary leader who combines strategic foresight with disciplined execution, Alan has guided Pega from its founding to its position as a global leader in AI-powered enterprise platforms built to learn, adapt, and scale. His work in AI began well before today’s generative wave, rooted in early research on computational decision making and reasoning systems. His unique journey from chess master to technology pioneer began with tying for first place in the 1975 World Open Chess Championship. His strategic mindset, combined with software engineering expertise from Dartmouth led to his recruitment to develop early AI systems that taught computers to play chess. Combined with his early work as a project manager working with large financial services systems Alan developed a singular focus on applying intelligence to complex, high stakes business decisions, which laid the foundation for the creation of Pega in 1983. From the outset, Pega has focused on serving financial services. It serves the world’s top 10 banks and Swift estimates that a Pega application touches 90% of all global exceptions and investigations due to the market leading Smart Investigate product. Pega’s first two customers, Bank of America and Citibank, went live in 1984 and remain clients today. Those early deployments focused on core banking and decisioning challenges in highly regulated environments, shaping a foundational philosophy that continues to guide Alan’s work: AI must be explainable, governed, and designed into enterprise workflows from the start. Under Alan's leadership, Pega has emerged as a leader in enterprise AI. The company's innovations in generative AI, intelligent automation, and AI-powered decisioning are enabling the world's leading organizations to achieve unprecedented business outcomes – from real-time personalization at global scale to autonomous operations that continuously optimize themselves. Alan's contributions to technology and business have earned him numerous accolades, and his best-selling book, "Build for Change," reflects his vision for business transformation in the digital age. Together with his wife Pam, Alan extends his transformative vision through the Trefler Foundation, which creates lasting positive change through initiatives in education, workforce development, and community health, particularly in underserved communities.

Kathleen Woodard is a Senior Director and Industry Advisor Manager at Microsoft, focused on financial services. She works closely with banking and payments leaders to help organizations apply AI responsibly and at scale, with emphasis on strategy, governance, and real world business value. Kathleen brings deep experience in payments, banking solutions, AI operationalization, and executive engagement, and regularly partners with customers on industry transformation, thought leadership, and go to market strategy. She is a frequent advisor and speaker on AI, financial services innovation, and trust.

Amit Mahajan is Head of Innovation AI at Swift, where he works at the intersection of AI, payments, and large scale industry transformation. With over 20 years of experience across consulting and financial services, Amit specialises in translating emerging technologies, particularly AI, into trusted, scalable solutions that deliver real business and industry value. At Swift, in addition to working on multiple innovation initiatives, he has recently led AI powered fraud detection and secure data collaboration (SDC) initiatives with tier 1 banks globally, helping strengthen trust and resilience in cross border payments while embedding regulatory and compliance by design principles. Prior to Swift, Amit was a Senior Manager at PwC UK, where he worked in innovation and advised major financial institutions on payments modernization and digital transformation, including one of the largest banks on UK’s New Payments Architecture Programme. Amit is a passionate people leader, coach, a diversity and inclusion champion, and a frequent speaker at senior industry forums on AI adoption, payments innovation, and leadership in complex, regulated environments.

With 20+ years of industry experience, Dr. Terisa Roberts is an accomplished author and sought-after risk management professional, who is passionate about innovation in risk management in the Banking industry. As Global Head of the Risk Modeling, Decisioning & Governance Initiatives at SAS, she is responsible for driving the product strategy and more. She acts as a trusted advisor to large organizations (including G-SIBS) across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas and has extensive experience in Risk Management topics including Enterprise Stress Testing and Credit Risk, Model Risk Management, AI Governance and Compliance. She holds a Ph. D in Operations Research and Informatics and lives with her family in Sydney, Australia.

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Sumee is a highly accomplished AI and digital product leader with more than a decade of experience spanning artificial intelligence, enterprise innovation, open banking, digital identity, marketplaces, and emerging technologies. In her current role, she leads Layer 6's AI Centre of Excellence & Practice, working across TD to help shape and scale the responsible adoption of AI capabilities across the organization. Prior to leading the AI Centre of Excellence, Sumee held a number of product leadership roles across both AI and Digital at TD and previously worked in large technology organizations delivering enterprise, developer, and customer-facing software products. She combines deep technical knowledge with a strong appreciation for the governance, operational, and accountability considerations that financial institutions face as AI becomes increasingly embedded in critical business processes.

Dana Brants is Head of Standards and Market Infrastructures at Swift. She leads global teams responsible for the strategy, governance, implementation, and adoption of financial messaging standards, as well as Swift's engagement with market infrastructures worldwide. In her role, Dana is responsible for shaping and delivering Swift’s standards strategy and market infrastructure engagement, ensuring the evolution, adoption, and implementation of financial messaging standards that support richer data, interoperability, innovation, and resilience across the global financial ecosystem. She works closely with market infrastructures, financial institutions, industry bodies, and operators to drive community-led standards development and industry modernization initiatives.. A member of SWIFT since 2006, Dana has held leadership roles across Standards, Communications, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Digital Transformation. Most recently, she led the Customer Interactions Tribe, overseeing Swift's digital customer engagement and service experience capabilities. Since 2022, Dana has served as Swift's Senior Sponsor for Gender Diversity, advocating for a more inclusive workplace and greater awareness of diversity across the organisation. Dana previously worked at the Bank of New York in Belgium. She holds degrees from KU Leuven and the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and lives in Belgium with her family.

Neil Buchan is Head of Standards Maintenance and Evolution at Swift, leading the development, maintenance and governance of financial industry standards across Payments, Securities, Treasury and Trade Finance. With more than 30 years of experience in banking and financial services, Neil works with financial institutions, market infrastructures and industry groups worldwide to drive the evolution and adoption of standards, including ISO 20022, that enable secure, efficient and interoperable financial communications.

Saravana is a payments professional with over 24 years of experience in cross border payments. He is currently heading the payments function in ENBD as part of the Group Operational Governance and Business Support. Prior to this role, he was heading Correspondent Banking Clearing & Network Management and was handling the similar function with another regional bank in the UAE. Saravana carries extensive knowledge in payments with deep industry expertise in Cross Border Payments and International Currency Clearing, and worked in Europe, Middle East, and India. Saravana participates in various payments forums and discussions, and the member of BUNA Advisory Council.

Cristina Lobo Roldán is Director of Regulation and Service Development at Iberpay, Spain’s payment systems infrastructure company. She is responsible for the implementation of industry solutions supporting regulatory compliance, industry initiatives and the development of innovative payment services, working closely with Spanish financial institutions, European market infrastructures and regulatory bodies. Cristina actively contributes to several European industry forums, supporting the implementation of instant payments, fraud prevention solutions and cross-border payment initiatives.

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Prajit Nanu is CEO and Founder at Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments. As CEO, he leads the company’s corporate and product strategy as Nium moves toward a vision of frictionless global commerce. Based in the company’s co- headquarters in San Francisco, Prajit is currently focused on expanding the breadth, depth, speed, and reach of the Nium platform. Today, Nium’s payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 190+ countries, 100 of which are in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 40 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 40 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography.

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Jerome Piens is Chief Operations Officer at Swift, appointed in August 2025, leading Core Operations and focusing on operational resilience, customer experience, and incident management. Previously Chief Product Officer, he drove key initiatives including the delivery of Swift’s Transaction Manager and the successful ISO 20022 migration. Since joining Swift in 2002, Jerome has held several leadership roles across operations, platform services, and transaction management, including contributing to Australia’s NPP instant payments programme. He began his career in cryptography research at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and holds Master’s degrees in Applied Mathematics Engineering and Management from Louvain.

Frank Van Driessche is Head of ISO 20022 Practice. Frank Van Driessche joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in late 2018 to focus on the adoption of ISO 20022 by the Fedwire Funds Service. He joined the FedNow team in 2019 to lead the ISO 20022 implementation for the Federal Reserve Banks’ instant payments platform. Frank represents the Federal Reserve Financial Services on a series of national and international ISO 20022 expert groups and currently chairs the CPMI ISO 20022 data harmonisation panel. Previously Frank held positions at SWIFT where he was responsible for the global adoption of ISO 20022 by payment market infrastructures, and at the European Banking Federation as senior advisor during the creation of SEPA. Frank holds a master’s degree of the Brussels Solvay Business School.

Danielle Sharpe is Global Head of FI Clearing & PayTech Payments and Head of Transaction Banking & Cash Management, Americas at Standard Chartered Bank. Based in New York, she leads the Transaction Banking business across the Americas while also overseeing a global payments franchise spanning FI Clearing, embedded FX and PayTech solutions. With leadership experience across transaction banking, payments, product management, transformation, risk and governance, Danielle is focused on the evolution of financial infrastructure and the future of cross-border payments. She is an active contributor to industry forums, including SWIFT and BAFT, serves on the BAFT Women in Transaction Banking Council, and is a strong advocate for payments modernisation and the technologies shaping the future of money movement. .

Nicolas Stuckens is leading the ISO 20022 adoption and data quality programme within SWIFT, a programme created to drive ISO 20022 community adoption, quality usage of ISO messaging and related Swift services. His main focus is to engage with the financial community and industry groups to ensure readiness and drive the programme in line with market priorities. Nicolas has a strong background in Payments and Financial Crime Compliance, having led the development of screening initiatives within SWIFT for nearly 15 years. His focus on compliance led him to explore how sanctions compliance-related friction can be reduced to support the move to instant payments. In 2021 he published “Guiding principles for screening ISO 20022 payments” in collaboration with leading industry banks, providing insights for financial institutions to leverage the new syntax for efficient and effective screening – a paper that was subsequently endorsed by the Payment Market Practice Group and The Wolfsberg Group. Nicolas joined SWIFT in 1997 and held several positions in the area of Reference Data, Pricing and Information Services. He holds a degree of Commercial Engineer from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect over 8,500 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in more than 200 countries. SWIFT enables its users to exchange automated, standardised financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies. SWIFT also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest.

Miriam Ratkovicova is a Managing Director in Deloitte’s FinCrime Consulting practice, with more than 25 years of experience advising leading financial institutions on BSA/AML, sanctions, and broader financial crime compliance matters. She has directed large, complex engagements spanning historical transaction investigations, KYC remediations, AML and OFAC risk assessments, and customer risk ratings across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. Over the past 15 years, Miriam has designed and implemented financial crime risk assessments for more than 35 globally operating organizations, including banks, broker-dealers, fintechs, credit card processors, and nonfinancial institutions. She also led the development of DERA, Deloitte’s proprietary, cloud-based, AI-enabled risk assessment solution. A recognized industry voice, Miriam has delivered more than 100 presentations at US and international financial crime conferences. She serves on the board and ExCo of BAFT and as chair of the United for Wildlife North America chapter.

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Lead Payment Industry Representative, PPI AG since 2019 – a consulting and solution company, long standing Swift partner. Mario has more than 25 years of experience in payment standards and automation in the interbank as well as in corporate-to-bank areas. His projects include SEPA, TARGET (from RTGS to ECMS), RT1/TIPS (from plain connectivity to liquidity management) and the wide area of Swift issues, such as connectivity on-prem or SSB, FIN and FINplus / CBPR+ including translations and business-oriented subjects such as gpi, CASE as well as Swift payments scheme and Swift ledger. Mario is next to the projects and product support of PPI also a co-convener in CGI-MP and co-chair of the EPC STP MSG, the scheme technical player multi stakeholder group in Europe advising for SEPA. He is also part of several working groups in VDT (German Association of Corporate Treasures) and EBA (Euro Banking Association) in areas such as API connectivity or tokenized deposits and stablecoins. He holds a PhD in computer science from University of Potsdam in 1995 after studies in Kaiserslautern and Chicago.

Liza is the Global Head of Financial Institutions, leading TD Securities’ Global Transaction Banking Financial Institutions business. She is responsible for setting strategy, driving growth, and strengthening strategic partnerships. In this role, Liza partners closely with regional leadership and product teams across Corporate & investment Banking and Global Markets to deliver a cohesive global strategy, elevate client engagement, and ensure disciplined, consistent execution across all markets. Liza first joined TD Securities in 2011 supporting the Global Metals, Money Market and FX Options Sales & Trading businesses and later joined Global Transaction Banking in 2014 as an Account Manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. Previously, as Regional Head of Financial Institutions for the Americas, Liza led the Toronto-based client coverage team and oversaw relationship management and Cash & Treasury Management solutions for U.S. money center and regional banks, foreign financial institutions operating in the Americas, non-bank financial institutions, and clients across Latin America and the Caribbean. Liza holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours from the University of Western Ontario and is a Certified Treasury Professional.

Dana Brants is Head of Standards and Market Infrastructures at Swift. She leads global teams responsible for the strategy, governance, implementation, and adoption of financial messaging standards, as well as Swift's engagement with market infrastructures worldwide. In her role, Dana is responsible for shaping and delivering Swift’s standards strategy and market infrastructure engagement, ensuring the evolution, adoption, and implementation of financial messaging standards that support richer data, interoperability, innovation, and resilience across the global financial ecosystem. She works closely with market infrastructures, financial institutions, industry bodies, and operators to drive community-led standards development and industry modernization initiatives.. A member of SWIFT since 2006, Dana has held leadership roles across Standards, Communications, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Digital Transformation. Most recently, she led the Customer Interactions Tribe, overseeing Swift's digital customer engagement and service experience capabilities. Since 2022, Dana has served as Swift's Senior Sponsor for Gender Diversity, advocating for a more inclusive workplace and greater awareness of diversity across the organisation. Dana previously worked at the Bank of New York in Belgium. She holds degrees from KU Leuven and the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and lives in Belgium with her family.

With more than twenty-seven years of global leadership in Corporate Banking, Payments, Trade Finance, and Risk Management, Elena Hergass serves as Managing Director and Global Head of Institutional Cash Product at Deutsche Bank. She leads strategic business and transformation initiatives shaping the future of Corporate Banking and is representing DB in industry fora and on advisory boards. As Site Lead for the Berlin Delivery Hub, she drives location and people strategy across Deutsche Bank Group, ensuring cross-functional collaboration and innovative, resilient service delivery for our clients. Her expertise includes operating model transformation, risk governance, digital transformation (AI, robotics etc) and payment infrastructure modernisation.

Celia Ardyasa is Director, International Network Management at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), where she is responsible for the CBA Group’s global payment clearing and settlement arrangements supporting cross-border payments, liquidity and settlement services. With more than 20 years’ experience in transaction banking and payments across Australia and Southeast Asia, Celia has held roles spanning correspondent banking, domestic and international payments, clearing and settlement services, and corporate account management. Her work has included payment network change initiatives, operational resilience programmes, industry standards adoption and the management of relationships with financial institutions globally. Celia represents the Australian banking community on the Payments Market Practice Group (PMPG) and Commonwealth Bank on the Australian SWIFT User Group (ASUG) contributing to industry initiatives that support the safe, efficient and interoperable movement of cross-border payments. She is based in Sydney and holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Master of Commerce from the University of New South Wales.

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Allysun Fleming Bio Allysun Fleming joined Scotiabank on May 4th, 2026 as Managing Director and Global Head of Products, Liquidity, Trade & Channels. In this role, Allysun sets the strategy and leads the teams responsible for Treasury Management, Deposits, Digital, and Payments. She’s focused on strengthening the client experience and driving growth across all client segments. Allysun brings more than 20 years of experience in financial services. Most recently, she was at Comerica, joining in August 2022 after 12 years at Wells Fargo in Charlotte, North Carolina. At Wells Fargo, she led customer improvements as Head of Customer Transformation for Commercial Banking and held a range of Treasury Management leadership roles, including leading TM Client Delivery (implementation, commercial account opening, and enrollment and automation tools). She also helped advance digital transformation and product simplification initiatives and gained global product management experience. Earlier in her career, she built consumer and small business banking expertise through Business Deposit product management and finance roles within the Consumer Bank. Before Wells Fargo, Allysun held several international roles at HSBC, including Commercial Banking Relationship Management in Buffalo, New York; Strategy and Business Development for M&S Money in the United Kingdom; digital product management for Internet and Self-Service Banking in Hong Kong; and Human Resources in New York, New York. Allysun holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She serves on The Clearing House’s PayCo Board of Directors and, in 2024, was named one of American Banker’s Most Influential Women in Payments.

Amy Burr leads the team responsible for delivering our portfolio of payments products and services, with a focus on delivering an exceptional customer experience for the full range of financial institutions we serve. In addition, she leads FRFS customer and industry relations, marketing communications, research, and the Federal Reserve’s payment system improvement initiatives. Prior to her current role, Amy headed FRFS’ Product and Revenue Management function and established the Operations Strategy team. She also worked as product office head and acting product manager in the Wholesale Product Office (WPO), where she oversaw all aspects of the Fedwire Funds, Securities, and National Settlement Services. Prior to joining the WPO, she led policy and strategy initiatives in the Cash Product Office (CPO). Amy also spent a year on secondment to the Board of Governors, where she led the Banknote Issuance and Currency Operations team.

Guillaume has been with SWIFT for nearly ten years, where he has held a range of leadership roles across Professional Services, Business Development, and Product. In Business Development, he led strategic relationships with some of the largest financial institutions across Iberia, driving senior‑level engagement and account strategy. He currently serves as Product Business Lead for payment services, with responsibility for shaping business direction and market adoption.

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Thomas Dugauquier is leading Swift’s product definition for Digital Assets. Prior to this role, he has been performing various positions at Swift in product definition supporting notably the ISO20022 adoption and Swift solutions for Market Infrastructures. He also recently held the position of Chief of staff and helped coordinating the definition of the instant and frictionless strategy laid out by Swift’s executives.

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Alisa DiCaprio is Lead Economist in Swift's Digital Assets Unit, where she leads economic analysis on how tokenized assets and new settlement models affect the global payments system. She is based in Washington DC. She holds a PhD from MIT and has previously served as Chief Economist at R3 and a senior economist at the Asian Development Bank. Her experience spans more than twenty years working on economic development, trade and financial stability across Asia, Europe and the Americas. She has published peer-reviewed research on these topics as well as conducted bespoke analysis for central banks in the Middle East and Asia. She advises public and private sector institutions on trade, digital assets, monetary policy, and payments and has chaired committees at BAFT, the ICC, the US Department of Commerce, and the World Trade Board. In 2024, American Banker named her one of its Top 20 Influencers in Fintech.

Sriram is the Head of Transaction Banking Product Management and Head of Enterprise Payments at DBS. He joined DBS from HSBC where he concurrently held the roles of Regional Head of Sales, Asia Pacific, Global Trade and Receivables Finance, as well as Regional Head of International Countries, Asia Pacific, Global Trade and Receivables Finance. Prior to that, he held several global positions in Standard Chartered Bank and headed portfolios related to trade products.

Monika Komar, MBA, is Head of Exceptions & Investigations at Swift. She drives Case Management, Swift's ISO 20022-based orchestration service, which replaces fragmented and manual bilateral processes with a centralised, streamlined approach. With more than 10 years at Swift and involvement in Swift GPI since its early days, Monika is passionate about leveraging structured data, process optimisation and operational excellence to drive efficiency across the payments ecosystem.

Based in Frankfurt, Paula manages Deutsche Bank’s engagement with key market infrastructures and global standard-setting bodies within the Corporate Bank. She serves as a co-chair of the Payments Market Practice Group (PMPG) and represents the German market in several international working groups, including Cross-Border Payments and Reporting Plus (CBPR+) and High-Value Payments Plus (HVPS+). Her work closely aligns with the G20 roadmap to enhance cross-border payments, contributing to the development and harmonisation of global payment standards. Paula also participates in initiatives under Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), including the ISO 20022 Harmonization Panel. Previously, she was Co-Head of Institutional Market Management in Deutsche Bank’s Cash Management division, led Institutional Case Management Benelux, and held senior roles at Swift and JPMorgan in payments operations, standards and liquidity management.

Chloe is the End to End Payments Business Requirements Lead for Barclays, a position that she has held for 6 years. Chloe Joined Barclays in 2008 as the manager of the GPP configuration team and has since performed multiple payment technology SME roles within the bank. She is the UK representative for the SWIFT CBPR group, Chairs the UK banks SWIFT CBPR Shadow group, is Chair of the UK Banking and Payments Committee and the UK Representative for the SWIFT PMPG. Before coming to Barclays Chloe worked for Finastra on their GPP Payment engine product for 2 years. This was a role that she moved into after working for Citibank (London & Dublin) within payments technology. During her time at Citibank she worked alongside the operational and technical teams implementing new payment engine platforms, across multiple branches, globally.

Juan Carlos Botrán serves as Deputy Head of Payment Services and Platforms at SWIFT, where he leads the development and delivery of innovative payment capabilities that support the evolution of the global payments. He plays a key role in advancing new payment frameworks designed to enable faster, more seamless, and efficient international transactions. Juan-Carlos also responsible for driving the industralisation of innovation solutions, overseeing their progression from proof of concept and pilot programmes to large-scale market adoption. Prior to his current role, Juan Carlos has held several senior leadership positions across Business Development and Product at SWIFT, where he was instrumental in driving strategic initiatives and delivering innovation across the organisation. With more than 25 years of experience in financial services and payment, Juan-Carlos combines deep industry expertise, technical knowledge and board-level leadership experience to help shape the future of global payments and financial connectivity.

Allison Shonerd is a managing director and Head of Global Clearing for Global Payments Solutions (GPS) at Bank of America. In her role, Allison is responsible for driving the strategy, development, and delivery of the bank’s clearing, settlement, and financial institution product capabilities in 37 markets globally. Her remit spans core infrastructure modernization, optimization of correspondent banking capabilities, and the integration of market innovations such as SWIFT gpi and ISO 20022. Allison partners across the organization to ensure the bank delivers scalable, resilient, and competitive clearing solutions that meet the evolving needs of a global FI client base. She plays a key role in driving industry strategy through engagement with global market infrastructures, standard-setting bodies, and peer institutions to shape the future of correspondent banking and global clearing. With nearly 20 years of experience in global payments, Allison held diverse roles across product, operations and network management with Western Union, PayPal, and fintech Hyperwallet prior to joining Bank of America in 2019. Her remit included responsibility for managing relationships with over 45 financial institutions, payment service providers, and card issuers to power a global fintech payment platform, and management of a global payment operations team. She is an active leader in the payments community, providing thought leadership as a panel speaker, featured in interviews, and was recognized by American Banker as of the 2023 “Most Influential Women in Payments: Next.” Allison is currently a member of the CHIPS Business Committee and the Swift US National Member Group Steering Committee.

Bruno Foresti is the Director of the Treasury and Hub Business Unit at Ouribank, where he leads institutional sales, foreign exchange strategies, mass payments, and cross-border financial market relations. Ouribank is one of Brazil's top banks in terms of foreign exchange transaction volume. It combines deep expertise in foreign exchange, cross-border payments, and trade finance with a strong focus on innovation. As one of Brazil's leading FX banks, it connects local businesses to the global financial system through international payments, correspondent banking, and Banking-as-a-Service solutions.

Jon Adams is an executive leader in global payments and cross-border financial infrastructure, with over 25 years experience delivering market-defining innovation across domestic and international payment systems. He currently leads Enterprise Payments and Digital Assets at National Australia Bank (NAB), with enterprise-wide accountability for real-time, data-rich payment experiences central to a digitally connected, AI-enabled economy. A board member of Australian Payments Plus (AP+), Jon contributes to the governance and strategy of Australia’s core payments infrastructure, including the platforms foundational to domestic innovation and cross-border interoperability. He represents NAB on the Future of A2A Roundtable, a Federal Government and Reserve Bank of Australia sponsored program shaping the role of payments over the next decade.

Amit Hathiramani is Head of Network Management & Product within the Bank Sales & Solutions team at BBVA, where he oversees the bank's global correspondent banking network and leads product initiatives focused on cross-border payments. With more than 25 years of international banking experience, Amit has held roles across Europe, the UK and the US with BBVA, Santander, National Australia Bank, Standard Chartered and American Express Bank. Throughout his career, he has specialized in transaction banking and financial institutions coverage working closely with banks and non-bank financial institutions to build strategic partnerships and deliver innovative payment solutions. Amit holds an LLB in European Commercial Law from the University of Sussex, an Executive MBA from IE Business School, and is an International Cash Manager (ICM) certified by the Association of Corporate Treasurers

Ljubov Alix de Heering is a Senior Market Infrastructure Manager at Swift, where she leads Swift’s securities market infrastructure activities. She brings together product, standards, service and industry perspectives to support the evolution of services for the securities community. Working closely with CSDs, market infrastructures, central banks and industry bodies, she supports market evolution, standards adoption and industry collaboration. Ljubov regularly speaks and moderates at industry conferences on the future of securities and post trade.

Mr James Fok is the Chief Commercial Officer of CMU OmniClear Limited. Since January 2025, CMU OmniClear has been carrying out the operations and business development activities of the Central Moneymarkets Unit on behalf of the HKMA. Previously, James served for a decade as a senior executive at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (SEHK: 388), where he played a major role in a number of landmark Chinese capital market internationalisation initiatives, including the launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect programme (2014), Bond Connect (2017) and the Hong Kong market's Listing Reforms (2018). In his earlier career, he worked as an investment banker in both Europe and Asia, specialising in the financial services sector. James has written and spoken extensively about market structure issues and the intersection between geopolitics and international finance. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Ardmore Shipping Corporation (NYSE: ASC), an Executive Board Member of the International Securities Services Association, and a Distinguished Nonresident Fellow of tthe University of Hong Kong’s Centre on Contemporary China and the World. He has also previously served on the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission’s Fintech Advisory Group (2023-24), as an International Member of Ireland for Finance's Industry Advisory Committee (2021-23), and on the Financial Services Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade and Development Council (2014-21).

Alexandre Kech was appointed by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) Board of Directors as the CEO of GLEIF, effective June 26, 2024. Prior to joining GLEIF, Alexandre Kech was Head Digital Securities at the SIX Digital Exchange. As a member of the Executive Board, Alex had full executive responsibility for the Digital Securities business vertical, including relationship management, product and blockchain-based service development, as well as ecosystem expansion. Over the past 25 years, Alex has constructed a unique career combining finance at BNY Mellon, payments/securities infrastructure and standards at SWIFT, and blockchain and digital assets at Onchain Custodian (ONC) and most recently Citi Ventures. As co-founder and CEO of ONC, Alex led the Singapore and Shanghai-based team that built from scratch a custody and prime brokerage service for crypto and other digital assets. As Blockchain & Digital Asset director at Citi Ventures, he built a team to engage the European ecosystem on emerging use cases for blockchain technologies and digital assets. Alex is also involved in industry and standardization initiatives. As the convenor of the ISO TC 68 / SC8 / WG3 which produced the ISO 24165 Digital Token Identifier (DTI), he is a member of the DTI Foundation Product Advisory Committee. He also recently served as co-chair of the Global Digital Finance custody working group. Alex earned a Bachelor’s degree in translation, and an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology while building Onchain Custodian — putting theory into practice in real-time.

Andrew has spent 37 years in the City working predominantly in the post trade space. He started at Citibank in the Worldwide Securities Services group eventually managing the Customer Service team for Citi’s European Clearing & Custody businesses before moving to Deutsche’s Investment Bank to run middle office for Money Markets and Fixed income. Leaving to join Swift scrl, he led the Securities Strategy team and started the Government Relations function through his involvement in a number of pan-european initiatives including the Swift response to the ‘Giovannini report’ and rapporteur for the European Post Trade Forum (‘EPTF’). Subsequently, he spent 13 years at DTCC where he was both CEO of DTCC’s largest Derivatives Trade Repository, DDRL, and the head of DTCC’s Regulatory Affairs for UK, EU and APAC. From 2021-2023, he was also Chair of the Data Standards Committee for the Bank of England’s ‘Transforming Data Collection’ initiative. Andrew left DTCC in early 2023 to start his own advisory business, BlackWater Consultancy Ltd. Today, as an independent consultant, Andrew is: - Chair of the UK Accelerated Settlement taskforce leading the planning and implementation of the UK migration to T+1 in 2027. - Chair of the UK Digital Markets Taskforce which is supporting the development of the UK’s Wholesale Digital Strategy as laid out in the HMT paper of 2025. - Co-author of a 2025 Report to the European Commission on Infrastructural fragmentation and potential solutions within the Savings & Investment Union - Part of a team of international consultants working for FSD Africa and the local authorities to deliver a 10-year Capital Markets Development plan for Ethiopia. - A member of the Strategic Advisory Group for TaxTec Ltd, a fintech specialising in tax recovery in the post trade space. He has a BSc in Materials Technology from Surrey University and an MBA from Manchester Business School.

Chris is a Partner and leads Oliver Wyman’s Head of Technology Dexterity, Americas. Chris has spent over thirty years providing advisory services to clients in a wide range of areas with a specific focus on technology transformation at scale, agile and product based ways of working and next generation technical architectures. As part of his digital transformation work for clients, Chris advises on scalable architectures, big data, advanced analytics, machine learning, process automation, public cloud, technology modernization, resiliency and change process management including agile transformation and change risk management. Select relevant experience • Led a Board sponsored review of the technology organization and application infrastructure for a major US derivatives clearing house. The resulting recommendations covered technology strategy, data strategy and organizational strategy and resulted in the institution undertaking a major platform modernization effort. including widespread adoption of public cloud • Led the due diligence of a private equity purchase of a professional services company focused on technology and engineering • Designed and led the deployment of a bank-wide data and application infrastructure to support the compliance function within a global bank. The platform sourced primary and master data from over 160 source system and created a conformed data set with referential integrity via a series of internal keys. It also supported a set of standard data contracts between the infrastructure and over eighty applications that were data consumers • Led a team that developed the strategy for a green-field private bank start-up and then led the efforts to design and deploy the entirety of the infrastructure and application capabilities to support the launch • Working with a major retailer, led a multi-month initiative to defined a comprehensive digital strategy to take a critical line of business from a predominately brink and mortar business to be able to support a significant online revenue stream • Designed and led the implementation of a data infrastructure servicing risk for the capital markets division of a major bank. The platform supported over two hundred different products and sourced data from over fifty primary source systems and corresponding reference data systems. • Led a team that implemented a bank wide metrics and analytics platform to monitor operations activity and risk. The platform consumed data from several hundred systems into a conformed model that was then loaded into a custom designed in-memory aggregation grid for calculation of composite metrics and top of the house risk. • For a major US bank, helped restructure the data architecture that fed the market and credit risk systems to improve quality, completeness and prepare for a transition to intra-day risk calculations. As part of the project, the architecture was also migrated to a data fabric based approach that allowed for dynamic, in-memory aggregation of results, including streaming analytics Chris has also founded, grown and run several large companies, and at numerous times in his career has managed large, global organizations. Prior to re-joining Oliver Wyman in 2021, he was Head of Transformation at Bank of New York Mellon and Head of Enterprise Change Management at Wells Fargo. He has a B.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a B. A. also from the University of Waterloo.

Charles Holive is the Chief AI Officer at BNP Paribas CIB, where he oversees the Bank’s global AI strategy, harnessing AI as a sustainable engine of value creation and operational excellence, fully embedded in its operating model. He recently led PepsiCo’s AI Solutions and Platforms, driving focus on building an end-to-end AI strategy across the “make-move-sell” value chain, and delivering scalable AI and agentic solutions and platforms. Previously Global Head of Applied AI/ML, GenAI & Digital Tools Services at JP Morgan Corporate and Investment Bank, Charles contributed to the transformation of the CIB business by applying state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and digital tools, to deliver financial impact through productivity, automation, and risk reduction initiatives. Prior to that, he helped grow Sisense’s revenue and valuation by leading the data monetization strategy and spent 15 years at GE Healthcare Technologies where he built and scaled the Analytics & AI business. Charles has over two decades of leadership in AI, data analytics, and business innovation, and holds a master’s degree from engineering school Ecole Centrale de Lille, France.

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Rimy heads the Securities Services business in DBS and is responsible for driving the regional franchise product development and management, sales and marketing of the Custody (both traditional and digital assets) and Investor Services business in Singapore, China, Hongkong, Indonesia and India, servicing the global Financial Institutions and Institutional Investors. He has more than 30 years of experience in the Securities Services industry where he has serviced clients in the Sovereign, Asset Management, Pensions, Endowments and Insurance segments across Asia Pacific on a wide variety of products and solutions including Global Custody, Fund Administration, Investment and Risk Analytics, Agency Lending, Transition Management and Collateral Management.

Katelyn is Managing Director, Head of Global Custody Product at BBH, where she shapes the strategic evolution of the firm’s custody offering through deep engagement with clients, operations teams, and global industry forums. A frequent industry speaker, she has presented for SMPG and ISITC and participated in numerous BBH-led webinars on the impact of T+1. Katelyn has spent her entire professional career at BBH. She joined the firm in 2007 and has worked within asset servicing operations and management, serving as manager of Global Corporate Actions, in addition to running systemic platform development projects, and managing the impact of global industry regulations on Custody products, where she was able to utilize her deep understanding of the industry to enhance BBH’s Custody product offering. Katelyn is an active participant in a number of industry forums such as ISITC, SIFMA, and AGC and received her B.A. in mathematics and economics from Wheaton College.

Mr. Rusia leads the commercial and product functions for Corporate Actions software offerings at S&P Global Market Intelligence and is based out of New York. The role includes responsibility for the strategy and management of Corporate Actions solutions, with a strong focus on industry standardization, complex product transformations, and large-scale process automation. Mr. Rusia works closely with clients and market infrastructure providers to drive standards led modernization, define product roadmaps, and oversee solution delivery and adoption across a broad spectrum of client segments, including both buy side and sell side firms. Mr. Rusia brings over two decades of experience in product management, business process re engineering, business analysis, and solution design and delivery within the capital markets domain. This expertise is deeply rooted in asset servicing, with extensive experience working with clients across APAC, Europe, and the United States, supporting standardization and modernization initiatives across multiple capital market segments. Mr. Rusia joined S&P Global in 2016 and holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering.

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Jaya Roy Choudhury leads the Swift scheme initiative across the UK, Ireland, Nordics, and Southern Europe. Formerly Head of Business Development for Diversified Clients in the UK and Ireland, she brings over 15 years of global experience in transaction banking, cross-border payments, and strategic client engagement. Jaya is an alumna of London Business School.

Hagan Shakespeare is ANZ’s Global Head of Cross Border Product, responsible for the strategy, evolution and ongoing performance of international payments and correspondent banking capabilities across the bank’s global network. With more than 15 years’ experience in payments and transaction banking, Hagan has held senior roles across correspondent banking, product leadership and risk adjacent transformation. This experience informs his approach to product, enabling modernisation that is commercially grounded, risk aware, and operationally sound. Today, Hagan’s focus is on advancing scalable, digitally enabled, and resilient cross-border payment solutions that improve customer experience while navigating the real world complexity of global clearing networks and market infrastructure.

Susan Yang is General Manager, High Value and International Payments at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). Susan’s team is leading the ISO20022 program and the digital IMT strategy execution for CBA. Susan is also responsible for the Commonwealth Bank’s correspondent banking network and is actively involved with the domestic ISO20022 Industry Migration Steering Committee, the domestic Cross-border Payments Advisory Council, the Swift Payments Scheme initiative, and the global Cross-border Payments Interoperability and Extension (PIE) Taskforce charged with providing faster, cheaper, more transparent and inclusive cross-border payments. Prior to joining Commonwealth Bank in 2017, Susan spent 16 years with Citigroup where she led specialist teams covering sales, product management and product development across Payments, Commercial Cards, Digital, Deposits and Trade.

Charifa El Otmani leads the Digital Assets Standardisation stream within the Product group at Swift. She previously was part of the Capital Markets Strategy team, contributing to the company’s vision for traditional and digital Securities and FX. With 19 years at Swift, she has held a range of roles across standards, product and business development, working on market infrastructure and industry initiatives with the Eurosystem, DTCC, CLS and others. Prior to Swift, she worked at BNY in the custody business, before moving to Accenture and BNP Paribas. Charifa holds a Master’s degree in Financial Markets, specialising in post-trade operations.

Usman Ahmad is a seasoned capital markets and digital assets executive with over 25 years of experience across financial market infrastructure, institutional trading and digital asset markets. Usman currently serves as Head of Digital Assets at Euroclear, leading the firm's newly established digital assets division and driving initiatives across tokenisation, digital issuance and next-generation settlement infrastructure. Prior to joining Euroclear, Usman spent eight years building businesses in the digital asset domain, most recently as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zodia Markets, where over the course of nearly five years he helped create one of the industry's leading institutional digital asset firms. Before Zodia Markets, Usman helped scale OSL, one of the world's early regulated and listed digital asset market participants, contributing to the development of institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure and services. Earlier in his career, Usman spent over 17 years in senior capital markets technology leadership roles at HSBC and Merrill Lynch, working across major asset classes, business functions and international markets. During this period, he led large-scale technology, trading and market infrastructure initiatives that supported the evolution and transformation of these two global financial institutions. Combining deep expertise in traditional capital markets with hands-on experience building digital asset businesses, Usman is widely recognised for bridging the gap between established financial market infrastructure and next-generation digital finance.

Daniel Coheur is the CEO of T-REX Network, an institutional blockchain infrastructure initiative designed to bring regulated financial assets on-chain through a compliance-native, interoperable framework. He is also Global Head of Digital Assets and Fund Distribution at Apex Group, a role he assumed following Apex’s acquisition of Tokeny, the leading provider of tokenisation and on-chain compliance infrastructure, which Daniel co-founded and led as Chief Commercial Officer for eight years. At Apex, Daniel drives the Group’s global digital asset strategy, integrating tokenisation, on-chain compliance and innovative fund distribution solutions across its network of more than 14,000 fund managers. As CEO of T-REX Network, Daniel is focused on building institutional infrastructure that enables transfer agents, asset managers and financial institutions to issue, service and distribute regulated assets on-chain. T-REX leverages open standards, including ERC-3643, to provide a modular compliance and identity framework designed to operate across multiple blockchain networks. Prior to founding Tokeny, Daniel built an extensive corporate career scaling transaction-based businesses in capital markets, including at Clearstream Banking, part of Deutsche Börse, and telecommunications at Syniverse, owned by The Carlyle Group. A committed entrepreneur, he has also mentored and funded several start-ups and founded his own investment boutique.

Thilo Derenbach has over two decades of experience in the post-trade securities industry, currently serving as the Head of Business Development and Commercialisation for Digital Securities Services at Clearstream. His career with Deutsche Börse Group spans more than 25 years, the majority of which has been dedicated to various leadership roles within its post-trade business, Clearstream. In his current capacity, Derenbach is at the forefront of innovation, responsible for the business strategy, development, and commercialization of Clearstream's digital and traditional issuer services globally. This includes a focus on the burgeoning field of tokenized assets and digital securities. He is a vocal proponent of the evolution towards digital financial market infrastructure and sees the development of wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) as a key driver for this transformation. Previous roles included Client Relationship Responsibilities for the UK, Ireland and the Americas for Clearstream, running the London office of Clearstream for 7 years as well as several years as head of asset servicing product development.

Francisco Tur Hartmann joined the European Monetary Institute, the forerunner of the European Central Bank, in May 1995 when he contributed to the development of the TARGET system (the Real Time Gross Settlement system for the euro). Since December 2017 he is head of Division in the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments of the European Central Bank. With more than 30 years of experience in Market Infrastructures, Francisco has been conducting policy work aiming for further harmonisation and integration of financial market infrastructures at European and global level. He is currently leading the team which provides transversal services to the market infrastructure projects operated by the European Central Bank (ECB). This, inter alia, includes the Cyber resilience of the ECB’s Market Infrastructures. Francisco holds a master’s degree in computer science from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain).

Isabelle is Swift’s Head of Product Security Roadmap & Innovation, overseeing its Cryptography Centre of Excellence. Since 2021, she leads the company’s Post-Quantum Security Readiness Initiative, paving the way for Swift’s transition to a quantum-safe future. Prior to this, Isabelle held various leadership positions at Swift, including as head of its Customer Security Programme’s Platform Roadmap. Isabelle holds a Master’s of Applied Sciences in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from University of Brussels.

Global Lead on Cybersecurity and Quantum on our Client Engagement Team at Swift. In this role, Juan Elias leads a global team that design technology solutions for the business challenges of our customers besides creating awareness of the Quantum risk, while we advise them on the connectivity, resilience and security aspects to leverage the Swift Platform, in close collaboration with our Digital Ecosystem across various communities for Swift's customers, including banks and corporates. His team empowers businesses worldwide through innovative, secure, and resilient technology solutions that drive digital transformation and unlock value of Swift. Juan Elias is a seasoned Solution Architect professional with over thirty two years of experience with in-depth knowledge in IT-related services constructing and fulfilling technology solutions. He is well-versed in industry-standard security protocols. Juan Elias joined Swift in February 2007. Prior to joining Swift, he worked supporting customers in the Southern Latin American region with Swift implementations and Anti-Money Laundering Solutions with one of Swift's Partners. He also held an IT manager role in a financial holding firm and a consultant role in which he was responsible for delivering communications, integrations, compliance, and IT solutions in Santiago, Chile.

Marc is a senior banking executive with a background in consulting and large-scale transformation across Corporate & Investment Banking and Capital Markets, having worked with a wide range of banks and financial institutions, mainly across Europe and South America. His experience spans strategy, operating model design, digital transformation and the evolution of core banking capabilities, including transaction banking and payments, giving him a broad perspective on how financial institutions can modernize client journeys while preserving resilience, interoperability and economic sustainability.

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Charifa El Otmani leads the Digital Assets Standardisation stream within the Product group at Swift. She previously was part of the Capital Markets Strategy team, contributing to the company’s vision for traditional and digital Securities and FX. With 19 years at Swift, she has held a range of roles across standards, product and business development, working on market infrastructure and industry initiatives with the Eurosystem, DTCC, CLS and others. Prior to Swift, she worked at BNY in the custody business, before moving to Accenture and BNP Paribas. Charifa holds a Master’s degree in Financial Markets, specialising in post-trade operations.

Anurag Soin is an experienced technology leader with over 15 years driving exponential technology adoption in banking. As Head of Digital Asset Services (DAS) Platforms at ANZ, his recent work includes: • Issuing the world's first commercial bank-issued stablecoin, A$DC, on Ethereum • Leading initiatives in asset tokenisation and DvP (delivery-versus-payment) settlement • Developing ZK-enabled scaling solutions for digital asset infrastructure • Delivering industry-leading digital asset platforms at enterprise scale Earlier at ANZ, he took the bank's first Data & Machine Learning workloads to the cloud, laying the foundation for enterprise data and AI adoption. Anurag is also a published author and PhD researcher in risk management for digital assets, a recognised public speaker and Advisory Board member in academia.

Holger Neuhaus is Head of the European Central Bank's (ECB's) Market Innovation and Integration Division in the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments. His Division develops the ECB/Eurosystem’s approach in relation to innovation and integration/harmonisation in the field of payments and post-trade services. He coordinated the Eurosystem’s DLT exploratory work and leads the Eurosystem’s work aimed at developing a long-term, innovative, efficient and safe ecosystem for wholesale markets in Europe based on DLT and relying also on central bank money (Appia).

Damien is a seasoned payment expert, having spent over 19 years in the domain working as a consultant, program manager and payments expert in several international banks and SWIFT. Currently Damien is the Head of Payments Industry Engagement for the Cash Management arm of BNP Paribas. Next to accompanying the Bank’s Product and IT divisions as a senior strategist, he is representing BNP Paribas in various working groups across the industry, pursuing his passion to achieve instant and frictionless international payments. Damien is also the Belgium and Luxembourg representative at the PMPG. Damien holds an MSc in Economics and is a regular speaker at corporate and industry conferences.

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Greg Williamson is an industry leader with over two decades in fraud and identity management, with expertise in fraud strategy, cyber fraud prevention, and global digital identity solutions. As the Head of Fraud Commercial Strategy at Verafin, he is accountable for defining and executing Verafin’s commercial approach for its fraud product line, ensuring it meets the needs of customers and emerging fraud trends. Before Verafin, Greg led the Bank Policy Institute’s fraud prevention program, supporting industry wide fraud needs and developing advocacy positions that align regulatory expectations with industry best practices. Greg has also held roles as head of digital identity product and strategy at PNC Bank, vice president of fraud mitigation and cyber security at Prudential, executive director of digital authentication at JPMorgan Chase and as VP of identity product innovation at MasterCard. His responsibilities in these previous roles included designing and executing fraud prevention controls, creating and deploying multiyear anti-fraud roadmaps and leading teams to develop authentication procedures for major product lines. Greg earned two degrees from Utica University: A Bachelor of Science in Economic Crime Investigation and a Master of Science in Economic Crime Management.

With a strong background in technology and data management, and a long‑standing commitment to data excellence, Christophe Tummers is Societe Generale’s Group Chief Data and AI Officer, a role he has held since April 1st, 2024. He is responsible for defining and driving the Group’s data and artificial intelligence strategy, supporting performance, innovation and regulatory compliance. Christophe spent most of his career at UBS, where he was a Managing Director and held several senior leadership roles across data, operations and technology. Notably, he served as Group Chief Data Officer as well as Chief Data Officer for ESG, establishing the Group CDO function and the Group Data Management Office. In these roles, he led the remediation of the firm’s data architecture, governance and quality frameworks, strengthening data foundations at enterprise scale. A long‑standing board member of the EDM Council, Christophe has actively contributed to the development of best‑practice data management standards for the global financial industry. Christophe holds a degree in computer engineering. A dual citizen of Switzerland and Belgium, he has lived and worked in major international financial centres including New York, Zurich, Singapore and London. Christophe was a speaker at the 2024 AI for Finance conference Christophe Tummers - AI for Finance 2024 (EN)

Johan Gerber, is Executive Vice President of Network Products and Real Time Payments at Mastercard and a member of the company’s management committee. He is passionate about innovating to secure the digital ecosystem - and enhancing trust across our hyperconnected world. Johan’s team works to build, develop and scale resilient technology and infrastructure that powers economies, connects payment ecosystems and drives financial inclusion worldwide. As payments evolve into a multi-money universe, where account-to-account, cards, blockchain and more work together, Johan is actively shaping how these systems connect. He is responsible for how we ensure money moves safely, securely and seamlessly across ecosystems, so people and businesses can choose how they pay and get paid with trust. With more than 25 years at Mastercard, Johan has played a pivotal role in the growth of the company’s cybersecurity offering, spearheading the successful acquisition of several security tech companies – including Recorded Future and Minna Technologies – and harnessing identity, data science and AI to help combat financial crime, before leading the real time payments business.

Stephany Kirkpatrick is a fintech founder and payments executive shaping the future of financial infrastructure and programmable money. She serves as an Advisor in Residence at EY, bringing deep industry insight to clients navigating the evolution of real‑time payments, digital commerce and next‑generation financial platforms. She founded Orum, an instant money movement platform powering real-time payments for fintechs, banks, and enterprises. Orum joined Stripe in 2025 to help scale the financial infrastructure that powers the internet — advancing real-time payments, financial accounts, and next-generation agentic commerce experiences. With more than 20 years in financial services and fintech, Stephany has built and commercialized zero-to-one products at scale, including the three-year post-merger integration of LearnVest into Northwestern Mutual and the incubation and launch of a $90M new-to-market hardware and connected fitness platform for SoulCycle and Equinox. Stephany has been recognized as one of the Most Influential Women in Fintech by American Banker and named to Inc. Magazine’s Founders 250 list of inspiring female leaders. She is a frequent speaker on instant payments, embedded finance, and the evolution of digital commerce.

Nompilo Mtshali is an award-winning Executive Head of Trade Product ( at Standard Bank Group), with over a decade of Pan-African experience in Trade Finance. Named Africa’s Top 10 Women to Watch in Banking, Finance and Investments (2023) by the Angaza awards, she leads high-performing executive teams, fostering global strategic partnerships, and delivering innovative, sustainable trade solutions that drive commercial growth and positive client impact across Africa and the global market. Nompilo holds a Master of Commerce degree (in Business Finance) and two Bachelor of Honours degrees in Business Finance and Management from the University of the Witwatersrand, where she also held a position as a Corporate Finance sessional lecturer between 2017 and 2019.Currently she is pursuing her PhD degree where she is conducting a study on Digital transformation and its impact on company performance. Nompilo is an active contributor to industry forums, bringing a practical perspective on how trade and digital transformation drive economic growth in emerging and developed markets. Her strategic focus includes advancing scalable digital solutions that support sustainable, future ready trade ecosystems. To view Nompilo Mtshali work attributes, please refer to her LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/in/nompilo-mtshali-86774646/

Biography Florian Witt Florian Witt is the Divisional Head of ODDO BHF’s International & Corporate Banking and Member of the Group Business ExCo. The business division combines corporate banking, trade and export finance, strategic international clients, correspondent banking business as well as selected capital markets activities. Before joiningODDO BHF, he was a Managing Director at Commerzbank: After developing and heading Commerzbank’s African corporate and institutional franchise including the set-up of various offices on the ground, he became Head of Business Management of the global transaction banking and FI area. Until 2006 he worked at Deutsche Bank as a Global Relationship Manager within Deutsche’s FIG. He started his career at Deutsche Bank within Asset and Wealth Management in Frankfurt Head Office as well as in Hong Kong Branch. Florian was a member of the supervisory board of the AKA European Export and Trade Bank. Florian is Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce Global Banking Commission and Board Member of the German Africa Business Association. He is also a Member of the Board of Trustees of BRAC Europe, a leading global NGO. He holds a Master in Business Science (Corporate Finance, Banking, International Management) from University of Muenster, Germany. During his studies he was also trained at AfDB in Abidjan.Muenster, Germany. During his studies he was also trained at AfDB in Abidjan.

Steven Beck is Director of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Trade and Supply Chain Division. Steven built ADB’s trade and supply chains finance businesses as ‘start-ups’ that now deliver guarantees and loans in support of about 20,000 transactions a year worth over US $5 billion annually. Steven has 25 years' experience in international trade and, in addition to leading ADB’s trade and supply chain finance businesses, launched initiatives to maximize the ‘development impact’ from trade by addressing some of its shortcomings. Steven established the first global default and loss data in trade financing, originally called the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)—ADB Trade Finance Register. This has influenced the regulatory treatment of trade finance, freeing billions of dollars in financing capacity, helping close financing market gaps. Steven launched ADB’s Trade Finance Gaps, Growth and Jobs study: the first and only study to estimate market gaps and unmet demand for trade finance. It is the world’s barometer on global trade finance gaps and highlights the imperative of addressing this market failure. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Steven led the ADB’s Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program as an effective crisis response vehicle, facilitating over 1,400 transactions worth US $1 billion in the food and agriculture sector and supporting the distribution of vital medicines and vaccines across Asia. Steven has been driving digitalization of global trade, creating the Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) in partnership with the Government of Singapore and the International Chamber of Commerce, as well as driving consensus on international harmonized standards for electronic trade documents—required to get digitalization of trade done by 2030. In addition to trade digitalization, Steven is driving initiatives seeking to track and report carbon and labour standards in supply chains; address trade-based money laundering; narrow financing gaps for smaller companies; and enhance greater participation of women in trade. He serves on the Governing Board of the DSI, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) Working Group for Trade Finance. Steven is a member of the Advisory Council of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and its International Sustainable Standards Board (ISSB) Foundation. He holds an M.A. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, USA and a B.A. from Queen’s University, Canada.

Avanee joined Swift in April 2023 and is currently Global Head of Industry Intelligence and Global Head of Trade, based in Singapore. She brings more than 20 years of experience across banking and financial services, having worked across Singapore, North America, Hong Kong and India. At Swift, Avanee leads the organisation’s Industry Insights & Intelligence function, providing an outside in perspective on the structural forces reshaping the global financial ecosystem — from geopolitics and sovereignty to digital assets, AI and evolving payments models. Her work helps inform Swift’s strategic agenda and senior leadership discussions on the changing competitive landscape and the implications for payments, securities, FX and trade. As Global Head of Trade, Avanee also shapes Swift’s strategic trade agenda and its role in the rapidly evolving global trade ecosystem. She works closely with banks, corporates, fintechs, governments and industry bodies to advance industry collaboration, interoperability and the digitalisation of cross-border trade. Prior to joining Swift, Avanee was responsible for global product management for Trade and Supply Chain Finance at ANZ. Over her banking career, she has held a broad range of leadership roles spanning transaction banking, relationship management, strategy, credit and technology. Avanee holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from the State University of New York and an MBA from INSEAD.

Ajit Menon was appointed the United states Head of Global Trade Solutions (GTS) in March 2025, having joined HSBC in 2004. Over the past two decades, he worked across the Group in Trade Finance, Payments, Personal Banking and Commercial Banking in critical markets: India, the UK and the US. Ajit has held several senior roles within GTS, including the Global Head of Technology Sector where he created go-to-market solutions with Mega-Cap corporations, Later appointed as Global Head of Solution Structuring, he was instrumental in building out GTS' sector capability as well as its institutional understanding of client value chains. Prior to his current role, Ajit was Head of GTS Sales and Trade Portfolio Management & Distribution in the US. Here he focused on driving revenue growth for clients through the provision of structured trade solutions, enabling them to grow internationally while managing cross-border trade risk. Ajit speaks English, Hindi, Gujarati and Malayalam fluently, and holds a first class Bachelors degree in Business Management from Bangalore University, India.

Sharon Toh is Head of ASEAN region for Swift, based in Singapore. She leads the relationship management team in ASEAN region, supporting the financial community in this fast-growing region. With 29 years’ experience in financial services industry, Sharon has developed deep client relationships across the ASEAN region, with strong connections with financial institutions, corporates, regulators, and market infrastructures. Prior to joining Swift, Sharon was Sales Director, Indochina at Thomson Reuters, overseeing Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos. Previously, she was Regional Head of ASEAN for the Client Specialist team, responsible for the region’s sales and client training. In addition to her successful sales career, Sharon has worked in various roles across content acquisition, marketing, and client support at leading financial information providers. Sharon is on the executive board of EU-ASEAN Business Council and serve as its vice chairwoman. Beyond her professional responsibilities, Sharon is passionate about mentorship. She supports the development of women professionals within and beyond her organisation and volunteer as a mentor to youths from underprivileged backgrounds - an experience that continues to shape her perspective on leadership and inclusion.

Stuart Bailey – Head of Industry and Payment Regulation Stuart leads payments industry and regulatory engagement for Lloyds Banking Group. He brings senior experience across relationship banking, transaction banking, strategy, and product, including building global correspondent banking relationships. Stuart is accountable for payments regulatory compliance, chairs the Payments Design Authority, and represents the bank on key industry forums including Pay.UK and UK Finance.

Joyce Shen is the Scheme Market Growth Lead at Swift in the Americas. Since 2025, she has been dedicated to scheme launching and market engagement, working closely with financial institutions, market infrastructures, and regulators to align value propositions and support the initial launch and early adoption of the scheme. Her work focuses on building market readiness, strengthening stakeholder alignment, and driving adoption momentum in the scheme’s early phases. Prior to this role, Joyce held positions in business development, payments strategy, transaction banking product management, and financial services advisory. She brings broad experience across the financial services industry and has spent her career helping shape innovation and execution in payments and market infrastructure.

Mr. Anupam Verma is part of the leadership team at ICICI Bank with around 26 years of experience. During this period, he has led businesses across diverse customer segments and geographies, including as Chief Executive of Singapore Branch & Regional Head for South-East Asia and Chief Executive for International Banking Unit Gift City. In his current role as Head – International Financial Institution Group, Syndications and International Banking coordination, Mr. Verma is responsible for ICICI Group relationships with Financial Institutions over 60 countries. He is also responsible for wholesale fund raising for all international offices of ICICI Group and domestic & international corporate debt syndication business. In addition, he is responsible for anchoring synergistic implementation of various initiatives, technology, systems and processes across 15 international geographies where the ICICI Group has operations. He also oversees representative offices in Nepal and Bangladesh. In his role as Chief Executive of Singapore Branch & Regional Head for South-East Asia (SEA), Mr. Verma led the Bank’s strategy in South-East Asia to play a significant role in capturing investment, Non-Resident Indian remittance, and trade flows between SEA and India in the client segments of Corporates (Global & Indian MNCs), Institutions (Sovereign wealth funds, Foreign Portfolio Investors & Private Equity Funds) and High Net worth NRIs. As Chief Executive of International Banking Unit (IBU) GIFT City he was instrumental in providing a platform for global businesses and NRIs to participate in the fast-growing Indian economy. Mr. Verma played a pivotal role in launching a domestic branch in Gift City (the first private sector bank) to fulfil the rupee needs of businesses and individuals in Gift City. Mr. Verma also worked closely with International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), the regulator, to conceptualize new business ideas in Gift City. During his tenure, Mr. Verma established a Memorandum of Understanding with GIFT Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to promote Gift City to Indian and global businesses. Mr. Verma is currently on the Board of SWIFT India, Receivable Exchange India Limited (RXIL) ICICI Bank, UK & ICICI Bank Canada. Mr. Verma has an engineering degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and also has a post graduate degree in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur which is one of the premier management education institutes in India.

Sanjay is the Senior Managing Director & Head of Global Treasury, Trade & Tokenization (GTx) at First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB). He is a member of Investment Banking & Markets and Wholesale Banking Group Management Committees, and serves on FAB’s Internal Subsidiary Boards. Prior to this, Sanjay held leadership positions at Citi in Transaction Banking & Institutional Banking across Europe, Middle East, Africa & Asia. He was also at Bank ABC in Bahrain for 3 years as their Group Head for Transaction Banking. Sanjay has lived and worked in the UK, UAE, Bahrain, South Africa, Kenya, Singapore and India. He holds an MBA from the University of Delhi and a B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and has completed executive education at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Yale School of Management. He is keen on Payments and Trade Technology Innovation, with a focus on accelerating modernization through Fintech Partnerships, Data Science, and Next-Generation Digital Payment rails.

He graduated in Engineering and obtained a PhD in Economics from the Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (EPGE/FGV). Analyst of the Central Bank of Brazil since 1998, serving as Economic Advisor to the Governor’s Office and Head of the Competition and Financial Market Structure Department, and is currently Chief of Staff for the Deputy Governor’s Office, and representative of the Central Bank of Brazil to the BIS/CPMI. He also worked at the Ministry of Finance in economic policy and competition advocacy roles and was a visiting economist at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) from 2013 to 2016.

Mike joined Swift in February 2023 to work on enabling cross-border interoperability for domestic instant payment systems before taking on the role of Head of Industry Engagement. Prior to joining Swift, he spent more than 25 years delivering banking technology solutions across Europe and Asia. The opportunity to work on Project Ubin with the Monetary Authority of Singapore sparked a passion for the Future of Payments, leading him to Swift where he can make the future of payments a reality.

Mel Gauci is Program Manager for the ISO 20022 Migration Program at Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet), where she leads the ongoing evolution of Australia’s High Value Clearing System (HVCS) and its alignment with global ISO 20022 standards. Mel is also an active leader in the international payments community. She leads the HVPS+ Change Management Working Group, bringing together major payment market infrastructures from around the world to coordinate the development and implementation of the HVPS+ ISO 20022 market practice. Through this role, she works closely with Swift, central banks, market infrastructures and financial institutions on global harmonisation, interoperability and the future evolution of cross-border and high-value payments. Mel has played a central role in Australia’s transition to ISO 20022, from the initial migration of the HVCS through to the ongoing annual standards and capability roadmap. She is a regular contributor to international industry forums and has written and spoken extensively on ISO 20022, harmonisation and the importance of coordinated global change across the payments ecosystem.

A 30+ year veteran of the Central Bank, Mr. Rolle was appointed Deputy Governor, Corporate Services on 1st August 2017. Mr. Rolle has served in various capacities within the Bank, most recently as Senior Manager and Head of the Banking Department. In terms of his academic background, Mr. Rolle is an Alumnus of the University of The Bahamas (formerly the College of The Bahamas). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Economics from the College of William and Mary (USA) and an MBA with a concentration in Finance and Quantitative Methods from the University of Georgia (USA). He is also an Associate of the Bahamas Institute of Bankers. Mr. Rolle has also served as a part-time lecturer in courses on finance and quantitative methods at the University of The Bahamas.

Matthieu de Heering is Montran’s Global Head of Business Development, Capital Markets, since 2024. In this role, Matthieu leads Montran’s business expansion across capital markets - into new products, technologies, geographies, segments, and industry initiatives. Prior to this, Matthieu was a member of Swift’s EMEA leadership team, responsible for Central & Eastern Europe, CIS, and Data & Analytics. He previously served as a Director of Capital Markets Strategy, focusing on digital assets; and as Target2-Securities’ ISO 20022 programme manager. Before Swift, Matthieu headed up the Management Information & Statistics team for Bank of New York’s Global Custody EMEA business unit. Matthieu is married, and a father of two.

Adam, as Chief Executive of UK & Ireland, leads Swift’s client and industry engagement throughout the region. In his role, Adam is responsible for shaping and delivering Swift’s commercial strategy, and leading the client relationship management teams, for the UK and Irish markets. He is actively involved with industry associations and policy development groups, serving as a board member of the UK Finance Payments Product & Services Board, and having served on the UK National Payments Vision Engagement Group. In his executive role with global responsibility for Partnerships at Swift, Adam leads Swift’s partnerships proposition, including governance, strategy and evolution. In addition, Adam also leads the relationship management function for global strategic partners. In a rapidly evolving landscape, Adam brings over 20 years of experience across financial services, including executive roles within global payments, corporate banking, strategic and regulatory change, and new product development, across Swift and previously at Barclays. Adam holds an Executive MBA from London Business School and also serves as a charity trustee.

Julia McKenny assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of the International Securities Services Association on 16 June 2025. She holds a Bachelor of Education from Sydney University and a Bachelor of Laws from Newcastle University, Australia. Julia completed her legal training at the College of Law, Australia, before being admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Julia's career in Securities Services began at JP Morgan in 2004, leading to significant regional and global roles with Northern Trust, State Street, and Standard Chartered Bank. Upon returning to London, she further honed her expertise through leadership positions at TMF Group and Accenture and worked with the Prime Broking team at Morgan Stanley. Her career highlights include serving as General Counsel, leading strategic advocacy initiatives, and ensuring regulatory compliance within complex international frameworks. Julia is also recognized as a thought leader in the Securities Services industry, contributing regularly to Global Custodian and other leading publications.

Anand Sampath has more than 3 decades of experience in a combination of leading National and Multi National Banks, handling multiple roles with Cash Management and Payments domain. As part of FAB's GTx, Anand is MD & Head of Global Payments Innovation and have been involved in various payments//industry shaping initiatives, Regional Cross Border payments roll outs with multi lateral agencies and involved with Central Banks on CBDCs. Part of the core group of BAFT authors for whitepaper on Stable Coins, and one of the authors for Cap Gemini's World Payments Report for 2025, published in Sep 2024.

In January 2025 Shannon commenced her role leading the Trade and Transaction Banking team in NAB’s Corporate & Institutional Bank. She joined NAB in July 2022 into the newly established role of Executive, Business Everyday Banking Products, Pricing and Fulfilment. Shannon’s responsibilities include end-to-end product ownership for Corporate Transaction Accounts, Specialist Deposits, Liquidity Management and Trade and Working Capital products. Products have both a run and change agenda, with significant investment in improving NAB’s proposition to simplify and uplift the experience for customers and colleagues. Further, she leads the Transaction Banking and Trade and Working Capital Specialist field teams. Prior to commencing at NAB, Shannon was General Manager of Deposits at ANZ. Shannon’s previous roles span product management, payments development, customer engagement, operations, strategy, data analytics, pricing and marketing across retail and commercial products and segments, and she previously held a variety of roles at Telstra in Product and Marketing, and was a Director at BPAY.

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Richard Dzina joined The Clearing House in 2020 following a career with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has product responsibility for the Clearing House Interbank Payment System (CHIPS), the largest private sector USD clearing and settlement platform in the world.

Thomas Dugauquier is leading Swift’s product definition for Digital Assets. Prior to this role, he has been performing various positions at Swift in product definition supporting notably the ISO20022 adoption and Swift solutions for Market Infrastructures. He also recently held the position of Chief of staff and helped coordinating the definition of the instant and frictionless strategy laid out by Swift’s executives.

Alisa DiCaprio is Lead Economist in Swift's Digital Assets Unit, where she leads economic analysis on how tokenized assets and new settlement models affect the global payments system. She is based in Washington DC. She holds a PhD from MIT and has previously served as Chief Economist at R3 and a senior economist at the Asian Development Bank. Her experience spans more than twenty years working on economic development, trade and financial stability across Asia, Europe and the Americas. She has published peer-reviewed research on these topics as well as conducted bespoke analysis for central banks in the Middle East and Asia. She advises public and private sector institutions on trade, digital assets, monetary policy, and payments and has chaired committees at BAFT, the ICC, the US Department of Commerce, and the World Trade Board. In 2024, American Banker named her one of its Top 20 Influencers in Fintech.

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Juliette Kennel joined Swift in 2004 and is currently Global Head of Industry Engagement for Securities and Standards, based at Swift’s headquarters in Brussels. She represents Swift on several key industry bodies, including as a Board Member of the International Securities Services Association (ISSA), a member of the ECSDA Council and as a participant of the AMI-SeCo ISO 20022 Task Force. Over her tenure at Swift, Juliette has held a range of senior leadership roles, including Global Head of Standards, where she oversaw standards development across international payments, asset servicing, securities settlement, treasury and trade finance. She has also served as Head of Capital Markets and FX and Head of Market Infrastructures. Before joining Swift, Juliette built her expertise in financial markets through roles at Morgan Stanley in London, Société Générale in Paris, and Clearstream in Luxembourg. Juliette holds both French and British nationality.

Emma Johnson is an experienced post-trade professional now working at The ValueExchange, where she heads up Industry Advocacy and Insight. Over her 25+ years in securities post-trade she has held senior positions within product and operational teams at leading financial institutions including JP Morgan as European Head of Custody Industry and Regulatory Developments, and Deutsche Bank as European Head of Market Advocacy for their Securities Services business. A leading figure in securities post trade, in recent years, Emma's remit has focused on market and regulatory advocacy, market infrastructure, and industry developments. Emma has held senior industry positions including co-chairing the ECB AMI-SeCo Securities Group (SEG), AFME Transaction Clearing and Settlements Committee, the AFME Market Settlement Efficiency Taskforce and vice-chair of the AGC European Focus Committee. Emma now co-leads the EU T+1 Industry Committee's Settlement Technical Workstream and SSI Taskforce and, having previously co-led the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce's Lessons Learned from the US now co-leads the Risk & Compliance workstream.

Giles Elliott is Global Head of Business Development for the Capital Markets product division. He joined TCS in May 2016 and his role encompasses directing the sales focus, developing the strategic product direction, the M&A and partnership agenda, and building TCS’ profile in its target markets. Prior to joining TCS BaNCS Giles was Managing Partner at AlfaSec Advisors in Singapore advising financial institutions on strategy, and worked with clients across the Investment Services supply chain. Giles spent over 20 years of his career in Banking, with leadership roles in several leading industry Securities Service providers, including Standard Chartered Securities Services, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase.

Marcin Zawistowski is Principal Communication Standards Expert at KDPW, the Central Securities Depository of Poland, with nearly 30 years of experience in financial market infrastructure, securities settlement, and post-trade operations. He serves as Co-Chair of the Settlement & Reconciliation Working Group at SMPG (Securities Market Practice Group), contributing to the development of global market practices and industry standards. Marcin is also a member of the Securities Committee of the EMEA SWIFT Alliance (ESA), where he supports securities-related Swift initiatives and industry collaboration. In addition, he is Deputy Lead of KDPW’s T+1 implementation programme and actively contributes to the work of the EU T+1 Industry Committee.

Paul Fullam is a Senior Business Consultant at FIS responsible for engaging the industry and serving as liaison for all global associations such as SMPG, SIFMA and ISITC. Paul is involved in client-facing and product roadmap initiatives. Paul has a wealth of experience in global securities processing – specifically as it applies to Corporate Actions; extensive market knowledge of market data, ISO messaging. Paul is chair for ISITC North America and is also Vice Chair of the SMPG.

Avanee joined Swift in April 2023 and is currently Global Head of Industry Intelligence and Global Head of Trade, based in Singapore. She brings more than 20 years of experience across banking and financial services, having worked across Singapore, North America, Hong Kong and India. At Swift, Avanee leads the organisation’s Industry Insights & Intelligence function, providing an outside in perspective on the structural forces reshaping the global financial ecosystem — from geopolitics and sovereignty to digital assets, AI and evolving payments models. Her work helps inform Swift’s strategic agenda and senior leadership discussions on the changing competitive landscape and the implications for payments, securities, FX and trade. As Global Head of Trade, Avanee also shapes Swift’s strategic trade agenda and its role in the rapidly evolving global trade ecosystem. She works closely with banks, corporates, fintechs, governments and industry bodies to advance industry collaboration, interoperability and the digitalisation of cross-border trade. Prior to joining Swift, Avanee was responsible for global product management for Trade and Supply Chain Finance at ANZ. Over her banking career, she has held a broad range of leadership roles spanning transaction banking, relationship management, strategy, credit and technology. Avanee holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from the State University of New York and an MBA from INSEAD.

Chris Jameson is the Head of Global Trade and Supply Chain Finance in Global Payments Solutions (GPS) at Bank of America. In this role, he oversees management of the origination and delivery of supply chain, receivables and trade finance products that provide liquidity, risk mitigation, and working capital optimization for the bank’s Corporate, Commercial and Business Banking clients. In addition, Chris is responsible for Product Management in GPS for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In this role he is accountable for the development and deployment of payments, receivables, FX, liquidity, commercial cards, channels and information services for both corporate and FI clients across the region. He has previously held a number of roles leading sales teams, including head of Financial Institutions Sales for EMEA, head of GPS Corporate Sales for Western Europe and head of GPS Sales, CEEMEA ex-Russia. Prior to joining the bank, Chris worked with Citigroup for eight years in Paris and London where he managed global treasury relationships with strategic French, British and Irish clients.

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As a director and product manager within CGI’s strategic trade solutions group, Merlin Dowse is primarily responsible for the design and delivery of forward-looking and client-centric trade solutions. He leads digital strategy initiatives and develops product value propositions using emerging technologies such as AI, APIs, and blockchain. He also manages third-party fintech vendor engagements and monitors industry developments. Previously, Merlin spent 15 years at J.P. Morgan in various global product management roles. He led digital strategy for traditional trade products, launched innovations such as electronic bill of exchange and trade loan functionality, and collaborated with fintechs. He also managed a multi-year project focused on trade asset risk distribution and contributed to expanding J.P. Morgan’s global trade footprint. Before J.P. Morgan, Merlin worked at Rabobank in the Netherlands. Merlin is a Vice-Chair on the International Chamber of Commerce Banking Commission and co-chair of the BAFT Trade Finance Committee, where he continues to share his passion for trade and advocate for the digitalization of trade finance. During his time at J.P. Morgan, Merlin was also a member of the ICC Digital Standards Initiative Industry Advisory Board working closely on the identification, development and adoption of data standards. Merlin is a regular speaker at industry conferences such as BAFT, GTR and ICC Banking Commission meetings.

Nuria Vegas Sala is Head of Business Development for Latin America (LATAM) at the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), where she has worked since 2018 to promote the adoption of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) across the region. She previously worked at the European Central Bank and the law firm Uría Menéndez. Nuria holds a Master’s in International Strategy and Diplomacy from the London School of Economics and the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing. She is a regular speaker at international forums on financial transparency and regulatory topics.

Senior professional, with more than 15 years of experience, currently head of International Solutions within BBVA's Commercial Client Solutions unit, a dynamic team dedicated to developing innovative global solutions for corporate and commercial clients around the world. Member of the EPC Board since 2107, participating in the transformation of the payments and collections universe in the SEPA area. Also a board member of EBA Clearing, chairing the Business Risk Committee and board member of Swift.

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Bruno Mellado is the Global Head of Payments and Receivables at BNP Paribas, where he leads the strategic development and expansion of the Cash Management product offering across Europe. With a strong focus on innovation and client-centric solutions, he plays a key role in shaping the future of transaction banking within the group. Before joining BNP Paribas, Bruno served as an advisor to the United States and Canadian Federal Governments, specializing in technology and project management. His expertise in digital transformation and operational efficiency has been instrumental in driving impactful change in both public and private sectors. Bruno holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Belgium) and a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Administration and Marketing from Queen’s University (Canada).

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Florencia Raspini is a strategic leader with extensive experience in financial markets, post-trade services, and digital transformation. She currently leads strategic planning and tactical coordination for a multi-year Post-Trade Digital Evolution Program at the Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores), focused on transforming financial and technological platforms. In her role, Florencia is responsible for driving a comprehensive digital transformation of post-trade operations, evolving from traditional system-based processes to fully digitalized services across platforms and channels. Her approach integrates data, intelligence, and digital collaboration, with a strong emphasis on innovation, efficiency, and market stability. She also leads the launch of new solutions for financial markets and regulators, promoting investment democratization and strengthening financial infrastructure. Florencia oversees multidisciplinary teams, manages program governance, budget, and resources, and ensures measurable outcomes through agile decision-making. Her responsibilities include vendor selection, strategic partnerships, risk management, and alignment with regulatory and market stakeholders. She is also deeply committed to fostering cultural change and talent development within organizations. In parallel to her corporate career, in 2025 Florencia served as an advisor in the foundation sector, contributing her knowledge and experience to initiatives aimed at generating positive social impact. Florencia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, completed in 2025, and a Master’s degree in Marketing from Argentina. She has further academic and professional training in Finance, Accounting, and Business Management from Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City. Additionally, she has completed specialized courses in Risk Management, Compliance, and SPIN methodology. Florencia began her career in Securities Services, working in Argentina and Tampa (1998–2003), where she managed client trade processing operations. She later joined Banamex Financial Group in 2004, where she built a strong trajectory across multiple areas. From 2004 to 2006, she worked in Cash Management Sales, identifying client needs and delivering value-added solutions. Between 2006 and 2011, she served as Relationship Manager for Institutional Clients Group (ICG), managing end-to-end client relationships and treasury structures. From 2011 to 2017, Florencia was Head Product Manager for Securities Services in Mexico, where she led product strategy and development, ensuring alignment with client and market needs. She worked closely with global and regional teams, as well as key financial market infrastructures such as the Central Securities Depository, Central Counterparty, and Central Bank, and maintained strong interaction with regulators including the CNBV. Florencia combines deep expertise in financial services with a forward-looking vision on digital transformation, making her a key leader in the evolution of modern financial market ecosystems

Christine Strandberg is head of Product Management for Investor Services Banks at SEB, based in Stockholm, Sweden. Christine has been with SEB for more than 25 years, working in the sub custody area as a systems manager, product manager and regulatory manager before becoming head of Product Management for Investor Services Banks in 2023. In addition to her work with SEB’s sub custody services, Christine is since many years an active member in local, regional and global market groups focusing on standardising post-trade communication as well as underlying business processes. Such groups include the Securities Market Practice Group’s Corporate Actions WG (co-chair since 2009), the ISO 20022 Securities SEG (convenor since 2021), the Swedish Swift National Member Group (chair since 2018), the EMEA Swift Alliance’s Securities Committee (chair since 2020), the European Corporate Actions/Events Joint Working Group (member since founding in 2007) and the AMI-SeCo Corporate Events Group (member since founding in 2020).

Jonathan Ramteke is a Relationship Manager at Swift, where he serves as single point of contact and trusted advisor to US-headquartered securities firms across the asset manager, custodian, and market infrastructure segments. He has led outreach on strategic initiatives like Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI) implementation, ISO 20022 for payments, and the Swift Ledger. Jonathan also contributes to Swift’s industry engagement, participating in ISITC’s Corporate Actions Working Group and Payments Task Force. He has previously spoken at ISITC conference sessions on UTI, ISO 20022, and corporate actions. Before joining Swift in 2022, Jonathan spent 5 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, specifically in Central Bank and International Account Services, which provides correspondent banking and custody services to central banks and international organizations. He began as an OFAC/AML analyst, which sparked his interested in Swift, payments, and securities, before moving to a relationship manager role, working with central banks in emerging markets and supporting the rollout of the FIMA Repo facility, an emergency liquidity program launched in March 2020. Jonathan holds a Master’s degree in International Trade and Development Economics from Tufts University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Rutgers University. Outside of work, he enjoys cooking, reading, opera, theatre, travel, and wine.

Adam Watson is Managing Director and Head of Asset Services at DTCC, where he is responsible for the strategic direction, performance, and modernization of the firm’s global Asset Services business. In this role, he oversees operational delivery, product innovation, regulatory engagement, and client experience across DTCC’s market critical services. Adam brings nearly two decades of experience across capital markets, custody, and asset servicing. Prior to joining DTCC, he served as Managing Director of Client Insight & Innovation at BNY, where he led enterprise wide digital transformation initiatives, complex multi product client mandates, and large scale operating model redesigns. Over the course of his tenure at BNY, Adam held senior leadership roles with responsibility for global custody commercial strategy, product development, financial governance, and multi billion dollar client franchises. Earlier in his career, Adam spent more than a decade at J.P. Morgan in leadership roles spanning global custody product management, finance, and operations. With a career that spans across the United States and the United Kingdom, Watson has vast expertise across global market infrastructure and post trade services.

Christian Houillon was appointed Global Head of Custody Products & Solutions in November 2020. In this role he is especially in charge to define the product roadmap for both the Sell Side and the Buy Side client segments, manages a central team of 30 custody specialists, and coordinates the network of local product managers worldwide. He is also in charge of the Digital initiatives for the Financial Intermediaries & Corporates client line. Prior to this, Christian was in charge of the Sell Side segment in the Custody Products team, and before the T2S Programme Manager and Head of Regulatory Evolutions and Collateral Management. He has led transversal projects related to market and regulatory changes, including the bank’s T2S programme which he conducted since its inception in early 2010. Christian has been part of the BNP Paribas Group since 1994, 25 years of which have been spent in securities services. During his career, he has been in charge of a number of IT projects and departments relating to fund services, before taking a more transversal role conducting complex projects, which involved stakeholders from multiple business lines within the bank.

Ann M. Battle is Senior Counsel for Market Transitions at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, where she leads global legal, policy and regulatory initiatives related to market structure reform and derivatives and securities financing products. She currently oversees ISDA’s work related to the U.S. Treasury cash and repo clearing mandate and is leading implementation of the first comprehensive update to standard FX documentation in more than 25 years. Ann previously served as ISDA’s Head of Benchmark Reform, where she led the development and adoption of LIBOR fallbacks that underpinned the successful transition away from LIBOR across global markets. She represents ISDA on key regulatory bodies, including the New York Federal Reserve’s Reference Rate Use Committee (RRUC), and previously co-chaired the CFTC MRAC Market Structure Subcommittee. Prior to joining ISDA, Ann was a counsel in the Legal Division, Complex Financial Institutions Section of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and an attorney in the capital markets group at the law firm of Eversheds Sutherland. Ann received her undergraduate B.S. Business Management from Georgia Tech and her J.D. from William & Mary Law School.

Michelangelo de Marzio is a Senior Director for Derivative Products and Infrastructure (DPI) at ISDA. He joined ISDA in May 2018 and runs the Equity Derivatives, FX and Digital Assets product groups within the DPI policy area. From 2011 to 2018 he held various roles in Equity, Credit and Interest Rate Derivative Operations at NatWest Markets/RBS in London, and his most recent role was Vice President in Derivative Operations. Prior to that he worked in various Derivative Operations and Middle Office roles at Morgan Stanley in London. Mr. de Marzio holds a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Economics from Clark University, Massachusetts, USA.

Jennie Baisch is a member of Swift's Global Securities team, based in Frankfurt, where she focuses on business development, industry engagement, and market strategy across the global securities ecosystem. She works closely with financial institutions, market infrastructures, and industry bodies to drive collaboration and innovation in post-trade services and securities processing. In her role, Jennie supports strategic industry initiatives related to securities settlement, interoperability, standards adoption, and digital asset innovation. She regularly engages with the community to understand evolving market needs and facilitate industry-wide dialogue on the future of securities markets. Drawing on extensive experience in industry consultations, thought leadership, and customer engagement, she helps shape discussions around market modernization, efficiency, and resilience. Jennie is an active contributor to industry conferences and forums, where she moderates and participates in discussions on securities market transformation, standards, and emerging technologies. As a strong advocate for collaboration and industry harmonization, she is passionate about leveraging standards to enable greater connectivity, automation, and innovation across global financial markets.

Cecilia Tamez serves as the Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Data Science at Euronet’s Money Transfer Segment, encompassing the XE, Ria Money Transfer, and Dandelion Payments brands. With a distinguished career in cross-border payments, Cecilia is a passionate advocate for financial inclusion between developed and emerging markets. She also champions the integration of Artificial Intelligence to enable intelligent automation within the industry. A respected public speaker, Cecilia frequently shares insights on the evolving landscape of cross-border payments and the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence. Key topics: - The evolving landscape of cross-border payments - Achieving interoperability between legacy and alternative payment systems - Strategies for banks and payment companies to capitalize on growth opportunities - Tapping into the potential of emerging markets for financial institutions - Reassessing financial inclusion: perspectives from emerging & developed markets - Harnessing AI to drive innovation in financial services

Ashutosh Chaturvedi leads API Engineering & Network Interoperability at Swift, where he leads strategic initiatives for the global financial community - across fintech, payment service providers and API services.

Ani Sane is one of the co-founders and Chief Business Officer at Terrapay. Terrapay builds payments infrastructure globally providing a B2B real time cross border payments service for mobile wallets and bank accounts as well as transaction processing, clearing and settlement services for regional and domestic faster payment systems. Ani Sane is based out of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

As a leading voice in India’s digital payments revolution, Noopur Chaturvedi has been at the forefront of building secure, interoperable, and inclusive payment ecosystems that serve as a key pillar of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). Since 2021, she has helmed NPCI Bharat BillPay Limited (NBBL), the country’s pioneering platform for bill payments and a wholly owned subsidiary of NPCI. Under her leadership, NBBL has evolved into a trusted infrastructure powering millions of transactions and enabling financial convenience for consumers and businesses alike. With over two decades of experience in Banking and Financial Services, Noopur is known for her ability to scale businesses and drive innovation in dynamic markets. She has led transformative strategies, forged impactful partnerships, and introduced breakthrough solutions that have set industry benchmarks. Her career includes leadership roles at PayU and Airtel Payments Bank, along with significant contributions at global organizations such as Citibank, ING, and Samsung. Looking ahead, Noopur envisions a future where the payments and collections ecosystem becomes seamless, secure, and universally accessible, fuelling financial inclusion and strengthening India’s digital economy through robust public infrastructure. She is an alumna of The Wharton School, where she completed the Advanced Management Program in Business Management and Administration. She holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, bringing a strong foundation in institutional strategy. She also has a B.Tech in Computer Science from Harcourt Butler Technical University, where she was a merit holder.

Daniel Stanton is a Managing Director and Global Head of Transactional FX, Cross Border Real-Time Payments (RTP) and Clearing Product Management within the Global Payment Solutions organization. Daniel leads a team of global product professionals who oversee the day to day management of the Transactional FX, Cross Border RTP and Clearing product suites; including the development and execution of the global product growth strategy, investment governance, PnL Mgmt, product development, key product focus areas and business risk mgmt. Daniel works in close collaboration with global core product and sales partners to promote payment and receipt capabilities, establish the marketing/commercialization approach, pursue and deepen client relationships and assist with driving innovation along with technology to provide cutting edge capabilities to BofA’s clients. Daniel also serves as a board member at New Door Ventures in San Francisco focused on workforce development of the youth in the bay area, and as a board member of The Unity Council out of Oakland, California focused on community development. Joining the firm in 2003 Daniel started his career as a part-time phone agent within the Consumer Bank. Following this role Daniel navigated his way through the firm taking on roles in GT&O as a Dedicated Service Director for a short time and as an Operations Project Mgr for Global Foreign Exchange. In 2012 Daniel took on the role as a channel product manager within CashPro helping to develop the core suite of award-winning payment solutions for our treasury clients before taking on his current role within Transactional FX Product Mgmt. Daniel holds a Bachelors degree in Business Management from University of Phoenix

Mónica Ramírez de Arellano is the Head of International Banking at Anchorage Digital. She leads Stablecoin Solutions for Banks, which enables licensed international financial institutions to access secure, efficient U.S. dollar cross-border payments and settlement through a trusted partnership with Anchorage Digital Bank. She brings over 15 years of experience spanning digital assets, investment banking, and law. Prior to joining Anchorage Digital, Mónica served as the Head of Digital Assets Strategy at BNY. She previously held senior leadership roles at Blockchain.com, including Chief of Staff to the founding CTO and lead for M&A and International Markets in Latin America. Earlier in her career Mónica practiced private equity fund formation law at Debevoise & Plimpton and worked in investment banking at Lazard. She holds an MBA/MA from The Wharton School, a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and an A.B. from Princeton University.

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Senior Vice President of Corporate Banking at BAC Latam, the largest bank in Central America. MBA with a specialization in Banking and Finance. Experienced banker and entrepreneur focused on delivering strategic solutions that foster business growth and competitiveness throughout the region. Passionate about sustainability and social development, committed to initiatives that balance economic progress with environmental conservation. Sports enthusiast and lifelong learner: marathon runner, golf and padel player. Proud husband and father of two young children who inspire my personal and professional journey.

Dana Brants is Head of Standards and Market Infrastructures at Swift. She leads global teams responsible for the strategy, governance, implementation, and adoption of financial messaging standards, as well as Swift's engagement with market infrastructures worldwide. In her role, Dana is responsible for shaping and delivering Swift’s standards strategy and market infrastructure engagement, ensuring the evolution, adoption, and implementation of financial messaging standards that support richer data, interoperability, innovation, and resilience across the global financial ecosystem. She works closely with market infrastructures, financial institutions, industry bodies, and operators to drive community-led standards development and industry modernization initiatives.. A member of SWIFT since 2006, Dana has held leadership roles across Standards, Communications, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Digital Transformation. Most recently, she led the Customer Interactions Tribe, overseeing Swift's digital customer engagement and service experience capabilities. Since 2022, Dana has served as Swift's Senior Sponsor for Gender Diversity, advocating for a more inclusive workplace and greater awareness of diversity across the organisation. Dana previously worked at the Bank of New York in Belgium. She holds degrees from KU Leuven and the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and lives in Belgium with her family.

Neil Buchan is Head of Standards Maintenance and Evolution at Swift, leading the development, maintenance and governance of financial industry standards across Payments, Securities, Treasury and Trade Finance. With more than 30 years of experience in banking and financial services, Neil works with financial institutions, market infrastructures and industry groups worldwide to drive the evolution and adoption of standards, including ISO 20022, that enable secure, efficient and interoperable financial communications.

"Tom leads product strategy and execution globally for HSBC’s currency clearing products within Global Payments Solutions, as well as North America’s cross border payments proposition. He is based in New York. Prior to joining HSBC, Tom led a firm-wide transformation initiative at Morgan Stanley and spent over 10 years at Citibank in a variety of product management and sales roles, covering domestic and cross border payments, transactional FX products, CLS settlement services and liquidity management. He has over 15 years’ experience in providing tailored treasury solutions to corporate and institutional clients. He specializes in payments product management, product development and the client experience for financial institutions and large corporates. Tom advocates for clients and the institutions he has worked for at payments infrastructure risk and business committees, market practice groups, and industry forums. Originally from Sydney, Australia, Tom lives in Manhattan with his husband Sam and their dog Margie."

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Andy Elliott Vice President, Product Strategy, EvonSys Andy Elliott is a recognized leader in the global payments industry, with over 25 years of experience driving transformation across banking and financial technology. He brings deep expertise in payments investigations (Exceptions & Investigations – E&I), cross-border payments, and operational transformation. With a career spanning both financial institutions and technology leadership roles, Andy offers a practitioner-led perspective on the challenges banks face in managing increasingly complex payment ecosystems. At EvonSys, Andy leads product strategy focused on helping financial institutions modernize payment operations—improving investigation processes, reducing exceptions, and enhancing end-to-end visibility. His work enables banks to deliver faster, more transparent, and reliable cross-border payment experiences in line with evolving industry standards such as ISO 20022. Andy is known for translating regulatory and technological change into actionable strategies that drive measurable operational and customer outcomes.

Larize Nel is the Head of SWIFT and External Payment Gateways at Absa, where she leads strategic initiatives focused on cross-border payments, payment modernization, industry standards, and regulatory compliance across Africa. With extensive experience in international payments, SWIFT, ISO 20022, and financial crime compliance, she works closely with banks, payment infrastructures, and industry bodies to drive interoperability, transparency, and innovation in the global payments ecosystem. Larize serves as Chairperson of the South African SWIFT User Group and represents the industry on several international working groups and member associations, contributing to the development and adoption of global payment standards and best practices. She is a recognized thought leader in cross-border payments transformation, with expertise in SWIFT CBPR+, ISO 20022 migration, payment transparency, FATF Recommendation 16 compliance, and emerging payment solutions.

Rossana Thomas, GM/VP, Enterprise Payments leads the Enterprise Payments Platform at Fiserv, and has over 30 years of strategy, product development and executive leadership experience within the Financial Services industry. Prior to joining Fiserv, Rossana worked for KPMG and supported several U.S. financial institutions with their Real-Time Payments implementations. Rossana provided strategic direction to The Clearing House’s ACH, wire and check image exchange solutions during her career at the TCH.  Rossana is an Accredited ACH Professional (AAP), an established payments industry leader and a member of multiple industry initiatives including NACHA. Rossana is the winner of the 2020 PayTech Leadership Award.

After graduating from ESCP Business School with a master’s degree in finance and marketing, Frantz Teissèdre joined Societe Generale Group (hereafter SG Group) in 1996 as a financial controller of the International Department. In 1998, he was appointed as SG Group’s Investment Bank Division financial analyst in the insurance and banking sector. In 2002 he moved to Fiditalia SpA, one of SG Group’s largest financial services companies, in charge of commercial development. In 2008, he was appointed Head of Fiditalia National Partnerships and Communication Division and was subsequently nominated member of Fiditalia’s executive committee.Frantz joined SG Groups’ Global Transaction and Payment Services Division in 2012 as Deputy Head of the Interbank Relationships Department. In 2014, he was appointed Head of Societe Generale’s Interbank Relationships Department. In 2023, he was appointed Head of Public Affairs of Societe Generale’s Cash Clearing Services Department. Frantz Teissèdre is a Board Member at EBA CLEARING. He has served as Societe Generale Group shareholder/member representative at Euro Banking Association, Groupement des Utilisateurs de SWIFT en France (GUF), European Payments Council (EPC) and European Central Bank AMI-PAY forum. Frantz participates in the European Banking Federation’s TARGET Working Group (TWG), which represents the European banking participants in the TARGET2 payment system. He is also taking part in the CPMI cross-border payments interoperability and extension (PIE) task force, which contributes to the implementation of the G20 cross-border payments enhancement programme. Frantz is a member of the EBA Expert Group on Cross-border Payments (EGXP) and of the Banque de France cross-border payments community.

Mike joined Swift in February 2023 to work on enabling cross-border interoperability for domestic instant payment systems before taking on the role of Head of Industry Engagement. Prior to joining Swift, he spent more than 25 years delivering banking technology solutions across Europe and Asia. The opportunity to work on Project Ubin with the Monetary Authority of Singapore sparked a passion for the Future of Payments, leading him to Swift where he can make the future of payments a reality.

Harish leads a global team working on financial inclusion; payments and market infrastructures; digital finance; and credit infrastructure topics. He represents the World Bank in several international working groups on these topics. He was a lead contributor to the IMF-World Bank Bali Fintech Agenda, co-led the Future of Finance flagship paper, and co-chaired the CPMI-World Bank taskforce on Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion.

Aundrea Jarvis is a Managing Director at BBH. She is the Division Executive overseeing Trade Operations with over 20 years of experience in financial services focused roles including, Asset Servicing, Client Experience, and Middle Office functions. She is actively engaged in global industry groups with a focus on progressing operational efficiencies and influencing global standards across the marketplace including ISITC, SWIFT, and SMPG.

Since joining ICBC, Jiao Yuqi has been deeply committed to the settlement team, building extensive expertise across securities, FX and post-trade processes. She leads the development of workflow standards and system optimization within the ICBC group, and has spearheaded multiple AI-powered initiatives, embedding AI models into different parts of settlement and significantly enhancing post‑trade automation while reducing operational risk. Ms. Jiao attained both her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in economic statistics from the University of International Business and Economics, one of China’s leading universities in economics and finance.

Kevin Blair is an Executive Vice President at Northern Trust, serving as a senior leader within Global Market Operations. He is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of Securities Services operations across Trade & Instruction Management, Settlements, Corporate Actions, Income Processing, Tax Services, Proxy & Class Actions, and Asset & Pricing Data. His remit spans strategy, day-to-day operations, risk and control, data governance, and large-scale transformation across a global footprint operating in over 100 markets. In addition to leading global operations, Kevin oversees many of the firm’s industry and regulatory change agenda for Asset Servicing. He plays a central role in shaping Northern Trust’s response to major market structure initiatives, including settlement cycle changes, regulatory reform, and infrastructure modernization. He is a strong advocate for industry collaboration and actively ensures Northern Trust both influences and adapts to evolving market standards, while leveraging shared utilities to drive efficiency and resilience. Externally, Kevin is an active industry leader. He serves on key forums including DTCC Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) and SWIFT US National Group, and is a frequent speaker at global industry conferences. He is recognized for his thought leadership in market infrastructure, operational resilience, and the future of asset servicing. Kevin brings over 30 years of experience in global financial services, with a track record of leading large, complex organizations and transformation programs. He joined Northern Trust in 2014 from Allstate Investments, where he led a major technology and operating model transformation. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at UBS in senior leadership roles, including Global Head of Program Management for the Investment Bank CTO Office and Global Head of Risk & Margining Technology. He began his career at J.P. Morgan as a risk and trading analyst. Kevin holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Dundee.

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Strategic and purpose-driven DEI executive with deep experience advancing equity and inclusion across global financial services. As Global Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Swift, I lead the enterprise-wide DEI strategy and governance framework for a cooperative that moves the global GDP every three days and convenes the world’s largest financial conference, Sibos. My approach is grounded in the belief that inclusion and equity are the drivers, and diversity is the outcome. I develop scalable programs, build measurable accountability into leadership structures, and align DEI to business, ESG, and talent objectives. From designing global mentoring programs and rebranding DEI to Inclusion, Belonging & Opportunity (IBO), to launching the STAR Scholarship Programme for emerging women leaders in finance, I focus on systemic impact—both within our organization and across the industry. I collaborate closely with senior executives, legal and risk, ERG leaders, and external partners to translate vision into action. I’ve hosted global summits, developed inclusive policies, and driven employee engagement through storytelling, education, and allyship. Most importantly, I help organizations move beyond statements to meaningful progress.

Maram Al-Jazireh is Global Head of Financial Institutions & Sustainability at Arab Bank and is responsible for relationships and business development activities with financial institutions globally as well as leading the ESG function within the bank. She is a member of the Financial Institutions Credit Committee, the Sustainable Finance Working Group and the ESG Steering Committee. Maram graduated from Oklahoma State University with a major in Accounting. Prior to joining Arab Bank in 2001, she worked at Talal Abu-Ghazaleh International, Cairo Amman Bank, Citibank N.A, Amman and ABN Amro Bank in Dubai. She previously served as chair of BAFT, co-chair of BAFT MENA Council, member of BAFT’s Executive Committee and was a member of its Board of Directors. She is also a fellow of the Middle East Leadership Initiative (Aspen Global Leadership Network – The Aspen Institute).

Martin Serrand is heading globally the Trade Finance solutions for Financial Institutions at Credit Agricole CIB, within International Trade & Transaction Banking Department. Martin is a 20 years experienced commercial banker, and has covered Corporates and Financial Institutions clients, in France and abroad. He joined the Credit Agricole Group in 2007 and since then occupied various front office positions in Coverage, Corporate Finance and Commercial Banking. Martin holds a Master Degree in Finance from Université Paris Dauphine.

Richard is Head of the Global Sustainability Office, having joined State Street in 2022. He spent a decade each with Barclays and KPMG before working for the British Government including as Director of Strategy in the Department for Business and as Strategy Advisor to HM The King in relation to his Prince’s Charities Group. Immediately prior to joining State Street, he worked in Private Equity, notably at Waypoint Capital. Richard has been involved the not for profit and wider civil society sector throughout his career, most recently as a trustee for The Royal Parks, and he will shortly take up a similar role with the Royal Horticultural Society. He has an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Nick Kerigan is Managing Director, Head of Innovation at Swift. In that role, he is responsible for leading Swift’s response to disruptive trends such as tokenised assets and digital money. Nick has a wealth of experience from over 20 years working in payments and banking across developed and emerging markets. Prior to joining Swift in July 2020, he was Managing Director for Future Payments at Barclays, creating next-gen customer experiences and partnering with FinTechs. His expertise is in digital payments, growth strategies and product development, grounded in behavioural trends. Nick is a well-known thought leader and financial sector influencer.

Charifa El Otmani leads the Digital Assets Standardisation stream within the Product group at Swift. She previously was part of the Capital Markets Strategy team, contributing to the company’s vision for traditional and digital Securities and FX. With 19 years at Swift, she has held a range of roles across standards, product and business development, working on market infrastructure and industry initiatives with the Eurosystem, DTCC, CLS and others. Prior to Swift, she worked at BNY in the custody business, before moving to Accenture and BNP Paribas. Charifa holds a Master’s degree in Financial Markets, specialising in post-trade operations.

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Stephen Lindsay joined Swift in 2007 and currently leads the Product Management function for Swift’s range of Digital Asset products, which aim to incorporate the benefits of distributed ledger technology into Swift’s financial industry ecosystem. Prior to that, Stephen led the business stream evolving Swift’s strategic platform to enable instant and frictionless cross-border transactions, and also led the product group providing solutions for market infrastructures. Stephen has a longstanding interest in industry standards and led the workstream migrating the Swift community to ISO 20022 for cross-border payments. Prior to joining Swift Stephen spent 17 years as a technical architect and product manager for a financial software vendor, specializing in the design and implementation of payments and integration software for an international market.

Charles Holive is the Chief AI Officer at BNP Paribas CIB, where he oversees the Bank’s global AI strategy, harnessing AI as a sustainable engine of value creation and operational excellence, fully embedded in its operating model. He recently led PepsiCo’s AI Solutions and Platforms, driving focus on building an end-to-end AI strategy across the “make-move-sell” value chain, and delivering scalable AI and agentic solutions and platforms. Previously Global Head of Applied AI/ML, GenAI & Digital Tools Services at JP Morgan Corporate and Investment Bank, Charles contributed to the transformation of the CIB business by applying state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and digital tools, to deliver financial impact through productivity, automation, and risk reduction initiatives. Prior to that, he helped grow Sisense’s revenue and valuation by leading the data monetization strategy and spent 15 years at GE Healthcare Technologies where he built and scaled the Analytics & AI business. Charles has over two decades of leadership in AI, data analytics, and business innovation, and holds a master’s degree from engineering school Ecole Centrale de Lille, France.

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Rachel is the Head of AI at Swift. Her focus is where AI can create real value — in how the organisation works, what is built, and how Swift serve the financial system. Her role spans adoption, governance and infrastructure, working across business, risk and technology to make AI usable at scale in a highly regulated environment, with close engagement at board and regulatory level.

Nick Kerigan is Managing Director, Head of Innovation at Swift. In that role, he is responsible for leading Swift’s response to disruptive trends such as tokenised assets and digital money. Nick has a wealth of experience from over 20 years working in payments and banking across developed and emerging markets. Prior to joining Swift in July 2020, he was Managing Director for Future Payments at Barclays, creating next-gen customer experiences and partnering with FinTechs. His expertise is in digital payments, growth strategies and product development, grounded in behavioural trends. Nick is a well-known thought leader and financial sector influencer.

Cem Soydemir is the Regional Lead for Payments Market Development at Swift. He is responsible for supporting financial institutions in enhancing customer experience through faster, more transparent cross-border payments. Cem brings 18 years of experience in the banking industry. Prior to joining Swift, he worked at BBVA Group, where he led the business development of cash management and transaction banking at Garanti BBVA in Türkiye.

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"Mark is based in London and leads a team of product specialists located across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas to innovate and commercialise HSBC’s global payments strategy, to meet the evolving needs and expectations of clients, developing cross-border payment solutions for Banks, Corporate and Commercial clients. With over 25 years’ experience with the HSBC Group, Mark has held senior positions in Consumer, Commercial and Corporate Banking at HSBC, specialising in the research, development, and deployment of digitally orientated services. A founder member of HSBC's digital team, Mark was instrumental in the early development of innovative banking services across multiple platforms, providing new services for HSBC's clients in different sectors and geographies. Prior to him being based in London, Mark was in Mexico City and oversaw the build-out of HSBC's cash management services in Latin America, leading the deployment of digital services for Corporate Treasury, Shared Service Centres and Payment Factories."

Serena Williams embodies style, power, beauty, and courage. The longest-ranked #1, she has won 23 career Grand Slams, making her the most successful female player of the Open Era and the prized WTA player of all time. Her success extends beyond tennis to beauty, venture capital, film, television, and fashion. Her athletic prowess combined with her off-court presence makes her one of the most recognizable names and faces in the world. Serena has won titles in all four Grand Slam tournaments. She has won 73 singles championships, 23 doubles championships, and was a gold medalist at the 2000 (doubles), 2008 (doubles), and 2012 (singles and doubles) Olympics. In 2015, Serena won four Grand Slams: Wimbledon, The French Open, The Australian Open, and The 2014 US Open, a feat affectionately known as the “Serena Slam”. Sports Illustrated named Serena their “2015 Sportsperson of The Year”. In 2017, Serena clinched her 23rd Grand Slam title at the Australian Open. Off the court, Serena has become a respected entrepreneur, investor, and fashion designer. She served as executive producer for the critically acclaimed 2021 film “King Richard” and the soccer documentary “COPA 71”, which premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and was later acquired by Greenwich Entertainment. In July, ESPN premiered the first episode of IN THE ARENA: SERENA WILLIAMS, an 8 episode docuseries chronicling her legendary career. Each episode explores the pivotal moments in Serena’s life on and off the court, illustrating the steps that show the incredible distance traveled throughout her career. This premiere was followed by ABC’s broadcast of the 2024 ESPYS, hosted by Serena. In April 2024, Serena launched WYN Beauty in partnership with Ulta Beauty, inspired by her locker room routine. WYN Beauty aims to inspire people to show up for themselves and others. Serena graced the cover of Fast Company’s Most Productive People issue in 2020 and Forbes ‘Self Made Millionaire’ annual issue in 2019. In 2017, she established her venture capital firm, Serena Ventures, focusing on investing in women and founders of color. In November 2023, Serena received the prestigious Fashion Icon honor at the 2023 CFDA Fashion Awards. In the entertainment space, Serena announced a first look film and television deal with Amazon Studios in 2021. She previously released the Emmy-nominated HBO docuseries “Being Serena” in 2018. August 2022 marked Serena’s final matches at the U.S. Open as she announced her evolution away from tennis. She has since focused on new opportunities including publishing her children’s book,” The Adventures of Qai Qai”. In December of 2022 Williams announced that she had teamed up with two CPG veterans to launch Will Perform, a line of clean, cruelty-free topical pain relief and daily muscle care solutions designed to reimagine recovery. In April 2023, Serena introduced Nine Two Six Productions, a multimedia production company that aims to elevate female and diverse voices through content. In September, it was announced that Williams joined as an executive producer through Nine Two Six Productions on the upcoming Diahann Carroll documentary, BETWEEN STARRSHINE AND CLAY: THE HIDDEN DIARY OF DIAHANN CARROLL. In October of 2023, Random House announced that Serena will author two books: an intimate and open-hearted memoir exploring the experiences that have shaped her life, and a guide offering rules for living that draw on her experiences as an entrepreneur and advocate. Both books will be bound by an unwavering belief in the power of perseverance, overcoming adversity, and dreaming unabashedly.

Olivia was formerly a TV anchor for CNN Money in Zurich, covering business, tech, finance, lifestyle and a senior editor at Forbes Switzerland. She has moderated at the World Economic Forum, Forbes Women’s Summit, Cannes Lions, Mobile World Congress, Web Summit, Hong Kong FinTech Week, Nordic Business Forum, GITEX in Dubai, Zurich Film Festival and many more. Known for her engaging presence and sharp interviewing style, Olivia has interviewed high-profile guests ranging from Kate Winslet and Steven Bartlett to CEOs of some of the world’s largest banks. She has worked with a large portfolio of corporate clients including L'Oréal, PwC, Deloitte, Zurich Insurance, Credit Suisse, LEGO, Roche. She is also a keynote speaker on communication, media and career development and co-founded the organisation Millennials4Boards. In addition, Olivia contributes to business and leadership magazines and hosts a podcast on the future of work. Olivia was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and currently resides in Zurich, Switzerland. She completed her Masters in Journalism at Columbia University in New York.

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Graeme is a Managing Director in the Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) at J.P. Morgan, and is an advisor on strategic programs for the firm. Graeme is also the Chair of the Board of Directors at Swift, where he has served as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the global cooperative since 2023. Prior to his current role at J.P. Morgan, Graeme was Managing Director and Chief Controls Manager for the Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) at J.P. Morgan, where he led a global team of 1,400 controls professionals that design and execute the controls framework and governance for all businesses in the CIB. During a 35 year career at J.P. Morgan, Graeme held a variety of operations, technology and infrastructure leadership roles, in the UK, the US and globally, and he is a passionate supporter and senior contributor to the firms’ people, culture, and diversity programmes. Graeme graduated from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, with an Honors Degree in Statistics.