Senior Director, Payments and Trade Operations, Royal Bank of Canada
As Senior Director within Payments and Trade Operations, Jason has full responsibility for the overall leadership and management of the Payments Processing & Operations Centre and Digital Cheque processing. He has global operational accountability for managing the Centre of Excellence for all Wire Payment and SWIFT Message processing as well as first line Sanction Investigation and AML/Sanction list maintenance conducted on behalf of RBC.
In addition to his current responsibilities, Jason has held a wide range of other positions within payments technology and enterprise payments and most recently was the co-lead for the HSBC Canada wire payments amalgamation program responsible to ensure all SWIFT Wire payment components to support international and domestic flows were migrated accordingly to support day one activation as well as creating and supporting operationally the temporary servicing agreement phase.
Additionally, over the last few years he was the business lead driving RBC’s payments modernization and overall ISO readiness as well as supporting the global/Canadian community with the ISO 20022 migration representing RBC at Swift and Payments Canada user groups as well as participating in PMPG and CBPR+ during the first stages of the ISO Migration between 2020 and 2023.