There’s only one year to go until the November 2025 deadline for payments instructions. To discover more about how you can prepare, we’re hosting two leading experts to uncover their top lessons learned on the journey to ISO 20022 adoption.
Join us for our latest LinkedIn Live to hear firsthand about the benefits global financial institutions are already experiencing from ISO 20022’s richer, more structured data, and gain actionable insights to help you and your team prepare for the end of coexistence.
Swift’s Head of ISO 20022 Adoption and Data Quality, Nicolas Stuckens, will be joined by Albert Abuto, Manager of Payments Operations at Diamond Trust Bank, and Girish Raju, Director for Domestic Payable at Standard Chartered, to help guide us through the final year of the community’s adoption journey of ISO 20022 for CBPR+.
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HOST:
Bio: Nicolas Stuckens, Head of ISO 20022 Adoption and Data Quality, Swift
Nicolas Stuckens is leading the ISO 20022 adoption and data quality programme at Swift, a newly created role to drive ISO 20022 community adoption, quality usage of ISO 20022 messaging, and related Swift services.
Nicolas has a strong background in payments and financial crime compliance, having led the development of screening initiatives at Swift for nearly 15 years. His focus on compliance led him to explore how sanctions compliance-related friction can be reduced to support the move to faster payments.
In 2021 he published “Guiding principles for screening ISO 20022 payments” in collaboration with leading industry banks, providing insights for financial institutions to leverage the new syntax for efficient and effective screening – a paper that was subsequently endorsed by the Payment Market Practice Group and The Wolfsberg Group.
Nicolas joined Swift in 1997 and held several positions in the area of reference data, pricing, and information services. He holds a degree in Commercial Engineering from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.
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GUEST SPEAKER 1:
Bio: Albert Abuto, Manager of Payments Operations at Diamond Trust Bank Kenya Limited
Albert Abuto has been with Diamond Trust Bank for over 15 years specialising in domestic and cross border payments which has given him an opportunity as a strategic trainer and fintech thought leader driving payments systems innovations within the bank.
He’s represented the bank in the Kenya Swift User Group (KSUG) and had an opportunity to serve as the Kenya Swift User Group Secretary General for two years providing an opportunity to closely interact with Kenya Swift community comprising of 42 commercial banks.
Albert is particularly proud of spearheading the bank towards adoption and successful migration from MT to ISO 20022 messages for both domestic (HVPS+) and cross border (CBPR+) payments, making Diamond Trust Bank an early adopter of ISO20022 message standards with the capability of consuming and sending out ISO20022 messages.
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GUEST SPEAKER 2:
Bio: Girish Raju, Director for Domestic Payable, Standard Chartered Bank.
Girish Raju serves as Director at the Transaction Bank at Standard Chartered, focusing on Domestic Payables. He has over 20 years of experience in the Corporate and Investment Banking space, bringing expertise from both banking and fintech vendor positions to identify market opportunities and implement new generation solutions.
Before joining Standard Chartered, Girish was Vice President at Deutsche Bank, where he led the product team for the Realtime Payments HUB, Payments-as-a-Service, Cross Border ACH and SEPA solutions. Very early in her career, Girish worked in accounts payable, giving a unique perspective as a practitioner of the technology.
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