David Brown

As the Head of Payments Consulting across APAC for Finastra, I work with banks, partners, and industry players such as central banks to help them understand the shifting landscape of payment technology and compliance.

Having spent more than 30 years in the payments industry, including 11 years at Colonial State Bank as Head of Trade Operations and 15 years in the vendor domain, I’ve worked in senior strategic roles advising banks including MUFG, BOC, Citibank, HSBC, Barclays and many other banks in this region such as Westpac, BBL, ANZ and BDO. I regularly speak and participate on panels at industry events and was on the Australian SWIFT User group for 10 years, as well as the RTGS industry group.

With multiple variable cross-border payment initiatives rolling out across the Asia Pacific region, the use cases for alternate rails and real-time cross border functionality are becoming a reality. Requirements for complex world of payment, open APIs and ISO compliant real-time infrastructures require a scalable, modular cloud-ready solution to futureproof for these APIs and microservices. Thus enabling banks to increase revenues, reduce time to market and achieve ISO 20022 compliance delivered out of the box.

Within my own team, I enjoy sharing ideas and supporting new approaches that enable us to lead our clients, and the sector more broadly, with payment solutions that facilitate emerging challenges. By liaising between customers, industry partners, and our in-house experts, I ensure all stakeholders have access to the most up-to-date advice.