Stuart McClymont is a financial services executive and industry thought leader with over 30 years of experience across investment banking, market infrastructure, and business transformation. Having spent more than two decades at leading institutions including Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank, he has worked across OTC derivatives, fixed income, commodities, FX, securities, operations, and technology.
Throughout his career, Stuart has led major industry initiatives to design and implement market infrastructure, drive innovation, and deliver large-scale transformation programmes across the financial services sector. He co-founded base60 Consulting, which was subsequently acquired by JDX Group and later became part of Delta Capita, where he led the Market Infrastructure and Payments Consulting business.
Today, Stuart is Co-Founder of reifi Consulting, a firm dedicated to helping the industry transform ambitious ideas into practical reality. Drawing on the meaning of reifi (“to make the abstract real”), he works with banks, financial market infrastructures (FMIs), fintechs, and industry consortiums to align stakeholders, build consensus, and deliver tangible outcomes. He is currently leading major industry engagements across digital assets, payments, settlements, and digital market infrastructure transformation, helping clients move beyond vision and strategy to real-world implementation and market adoption.
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Cross-border FX settlement is entering a decisive new phase. As digital money, new settlement models, and emerging infrastructures reshape the global financial system, central banks are moving from theory to practical engagement - domestically, bilaterally, and multilaterally.
This panel brings together leading central banks to explore how the future market structure for cross-border FX PvP settlement is being shaped in practice. The discussion will examine key design choices: decentralised versus centralised orchestration, bilateral interoperability versus federated protocols, and how to move from experimentation to production without creating new fragmentation.
Join the conversation to hear how central banks and progressive market participants are modelling, testing, and guiding the next generation of safe, interoperable, and scalable cross-border FX settlement.