Tim Moncrieff

Managing Director of Visa Payments & Currencycloud & VP, Strategic Initiatives & Execution, Visa Direct

Visa

Tim is the Managing Director of Visa Payments Limited and Currencycloud, Visa’s regulated money movement businesses supporting domestic and cross‑border payments. He also serves as VP, Global Head of Strategic Initiatives & Execution for Visa Direct, where he leads core expansion and growth initiatives. Prior to Visa, Tim spent around 15 years across financial services and technology, including leadership roles in capital markets, payments, and consulting.

Speaking at

12:00–1:30pmTue 23 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 3, Ground FloorOpen
Blueprint for Digital Assets

Agorá - How Moving Money Matters

GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 3, Ground FloorOpen
About this session

Project Agorá tests the hypothesis that a multi-currency settlement mechanism that leverages tokenization and programmability could mitigate inefficiencies and frictions in cross-border payments, making them faster, more transparent and safer.
To examine this, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Institute of International Finance (IIF) combined forces to convene seven central banks and over 40 international financial institutions to test the tokenization of commercial bank deposits and central bank reserves on a unifying ledger. The roundtable will bring together Project Agorá public and private sector participants to reflect on the project and lessons learned.
10:30–11:10amWed 24 JunForum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
Next-Gen Transactions

The $320 Trillion Rewiring: Infrastructure, Rules and the Race to Move Money

Forum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
About this session

The global payments system is being rebuilt simultaneously across every layer: real-time rails, ISO 20022, CBDCs, stablecoins, and B2B clearing infrastructure are all live at once, each pulling in different directions. Leaders representing the full stack - from consumer networks and B2B rails to global messaging, public digital money, and the next frontier of SME payment access debate the architectural choices that will define how $320 trillion moves each year.
2:00–3:30pmWed 24 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 1, Ground FloorOpen
Next-Gen Transactions

The Great Convergence: Building Tomorrow's Integrated Payments Networks

GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 1, Ground FloorOpen
About this session

The consensus is clear: global payment networks see collaboration, not competition, as their path to future dominance. Major networks are already building bridges – Mastercard with Ant International, Swift with blockchain layers, NGP's Nexus connecting instant payment systems worldwide. But as these technical integrations accelerate, a critical question emerges: what policy frameworks will govern this interconnected future?

When payment networks interoperate across borders, whose rules apply? How do regulators ensure consumer protection when a transaction touches multiple jurisdictions and networks? As networks become more interdependent, how do policymakers balance innovation with systemic risk? And perhaps most importantly – how can policy frameworks evolve to support beneficial network effects while preventing any single player from wielding excessive market power?

This roundtable brings together payment network leaders, financial regulators, and policy experts to explore how regulatory frameworks must adapt to govern an era of payment network collaboration. The stakes are high: get the policy right, and we unlock unprecedented efficiency and inclusion in global payments. Get it wrong, and we risk creating new systemic vulnerabilities or stifling the very innovation that promises to transform how the world moves money.

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Tim Moncrieff

Speaking at

Agorá - How Moving Money Matters

The $320 Trillion Rewiring: Infrastructure, Rules and the Race to Move Money

The Great Convergence: Building Tomorrow's Integrated Payments Networks