Speaker profile: Anu Widyalankara

Anu is a Payments Strategy and Technology Lead in the UK Payments Practice at EY. She has over 16 years of experience in Financial Services, leading and delivering strategy. M&A integration, complex transformation and new payments product development to financial services and cross-sector payments clients, focusing on both domestic & global payments. With a focus on designing and delivering payments innovation and payments strategy, Anu supports CTO’s and CIO’s through technology transformation and target architecture implementation. She specialises in key payments innovations and infrastructure such as real-time payments, ISO20022, SWIFT gpi, RTGS, open Banking, UK New Payments Architecture, central bank digital currencies and Blockchain technologies.