Nicholas Senechal

Nick Senechal is a Strategic Advisor to Visa Direct. In this role he is working on a number of growth initiatives to build the money movement business, with special focus on cross-border collaboration, fincrime prevention, connectivity to domestic payment networks and innovative settlement approaches. Nick also represents visa on multiple industry bodies and working groups within the CPMI, UK Finance, EPSG and EPC. At Visa Nick also led strategy work in open banking and real-time payments. Prior to Visa, Nick had over 30 years' experience in payments with Vocalink and its predecessors. Notable achievements include developing the business architecture for re-platforming the UK retail payment infrastructure and playing a leading role in the development of UK “Faster Payments”. This led to development and advocacy for the real-time paradigm for instant payment "ecosystems" globally.