Anand Sinha is Deputy Governor in Reserve Bank of India where he is in-charge of regulation of commercial banks,  Non-Banking Financial Companies and Urban Cooperative Banks. His other responsibilities include, among others, Information Technology. He has been closely associated with the banking sector reforms in India. He has represented the Reserve Bank of India in various Committees/Groups of BIS such as Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), Policy Development Group (PDG), Macro Prudential Supervision Group (MPG), Macro Variable Task Force (MVTF) and Committee on Global Financial Systems (CGFS). He represented India on the G20 Working Group on Enhancing Sound Regulation & Strengthening Transparency. He is the Chairman, Governing Council of the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), a research and development institution on financial sector technology, set up by the Reserve Bank of India. He is also a member on the Board of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

Mr. Sinha holds Masters Degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi.

Harun R. Khan is one of the four Deputy Governors of the Reserve Bank of India. His current responsibilities include departments dealing with forex reserve management, foreign exchange, internal debt management, development & regulation of government securities market, payment and settlement system, internal inspection and security, government & bank accounts.

He is Reserve Bank’s representative on the Committee on Global Financial System (CGFS) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

He also represents the Reserve Bank of India on the Boards of two apex financial institutions in the country - the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and the National Housing Bank (NHB). He has chaired a number of Committees/Groups including the Internal Group on Rural Credit and Microfinance which recommended the expansion of banking outreach through the Business Facilitators & Business Correspondents for scaling up the bank-led ICT – supported financial inclusion in India.

G Padmanabhan, is Executive Director in the Reserve Bank of India, with over 30 years experience in various capacities in the Bank.

His areas of work experience include regulation and supervision of the foreign exchange market in India, payment and settlements and debt markets. He drove IT initiatives in the Reserve Bank for over three years during which time several important projects fructified the most important being the state of the art Tier IV data centre of the Bank. Before being elevated to his present post, he also headed the Department of Payment and Settlement Systems in the Bank. Under his initiative, the country saw the introduction of a wide range of new payment systems products like pre-paid cards, m-wallets etc. Alongside, the country took pioneering efforts in improving the security of payment transactions particularly over the internet.

He has been a panel member at many of the Seminars on market issues organized in India and a regular guest speaker at many of the training establishments run by the Reserve Bank/ Commercial Banks. He is representative of Reserve Bank of India on the Committee for Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) in Bank for International Settlements, Basle. Presently, he is the Chairman of the CPSS Working Group on Non-Banks in Retail Payments.

He is a post graduate in Economics, holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Birmingham University and is an Alumnus of the Kellogg Business School.

Marc Bayle is the Target2-Securities (T2S) Programme Manager and Principal Adviser at the European Central Bank. The work of the ECB’s team consists of the overall management and coordination of the project, as well as the provision of support to the work of the T2S Board. It also includes more technical matters such as compiling the user requirements, designing the operational framework, testing and migration strategies, maintaining relations with central securities depositories (CSDs) and users, providing advice on all legal issues and preparing the contractual agreements.

Marc Bayle is the Chairman of the Project Managers Group (PMG) - a composition of project managers from various Euro and non-Euro Central Banks - that reports to the T2S Board and provides the Currency Steering Groups with regular updates on its work.

In his previous roles, he has managed dossiers related to the promotion of market integration and the definition of the Eurosystem’s operational framework, focusing in particular on payment systems and market infrastructure aspects. He has authored publications on the market infrastructure integration process and on related issues, such as the Euro repo market.

Before joining the ECB, he has worked for ten years at SICOVAM S.A. (now Euroclear France) as Adviser to senior management. He has a Master’s degree in Finance, CERAM having specialised in audit and post-market infrastructure.

Stephen Peter Lindsay is the Head of the SWIFT Standards department, which is responsible for the maintenance of the SWIFT MT standard, ISO 15022, and SWIFT-submitted ISO 20022 messages. SWIFT Standards also operates the registration authority (RA) for ISO 20022, and several other ISO standards including ISO 15022, ISO 9362 (BIC), ISO 10383 (MIC) and ISO 13616 (IBAN).

He joined Swift in 2007, having spent the previous 20 years at Misys Banking Systems working on financial messaging and payments software.

Stephen Lindsay is an active blogger, blogging about SWIFT and other financial industry standards.

Daso Coimbra is the Head of the Department of Banking Operations and Payment System at the Banco Central do Brasil, the Brazilian Central Bank. He has been with Banco Central do Brasil for the last 36 years, most of them at the International Reserves Operations Department, where he was the Head of Department from 1999 to 2006.

He is a non-voting member of the Brazilian Monetary Policy Committee (COPOM) for 10 years and the Brazilian Central Bank representative at the Basel Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) at the Bank for International Settlements.

His present responsibilities include the Discount Window and Reserve Requirement operations, the supervision of the Brazilian Payments System, and the oversight of the Financial Markets Infrastructures and retail payments operations.

Edward Leach is the Head of Operations in the National Payment System Department at the South African Reserve Bank. In his previous assignments, he has also functioned as the Head of Africa South at SWIFT.

At the South African Reserve Bank, two of his major functions are:
    1. The operations of the SAMOS system (South Africa domestic RTGS system); and
    2. The SADC regionalisation project including the operations of SIRESS (SADC Integrated Regional Electronic Settlement System) the SADC regional RTGS system.

Jochen Erich Metzger is Head of the Department Payments and Settlement Systems at the Deutsche Bundesbank. He holds a Master degree in economics from the University of Mannheim.

He represents the Bundesbank at the Eurosystems Payments and Settlement Systems Committee (PSSC) and the Target 2 Securities Advisory Group—the G20-Committee on Payments and Settlement Systems— and is the Responsible Senior Officer for cooperative oversight of CLS. Since May 2009, Jochen has been a Member of the TARGET2-Securities Programme Board.

Jochen Metzger has been a member of the Bundesbank’s staff since 1988 and previously held positions in the markets, payments and infrastructure areas of the Bank. He has also served as the Bundesbank Representative for Latin America at the German Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 2000 to 2003, he was a Senior Policy Advisor and member of the secretariat of the Financial Stability Forum at the BIS in Basel.

Dr Ramasastri is the Chief General Manager in Charge of Department of Information Technology at Reserve Bank of India. He has spearheaded some of the important initiatives like XBRL standards for data reporting from commercial banks to Reserve Bank of India as well as automated data flow. He has been guiding the project on the new RTGS project in India, right from approach paper to implementation. He has led the team towards implementation of ISO 20022 standards for new RTGS.

Dr Ramasastri holds a Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has been working in Reserve Bank of India for more than three decades. He has authored several articles and books in the area of IT, banking and finance. One of his books is translated into Chinese.

Dr. A. K. Hirve is the Chief General Manager, Department of Information Technology, Reserve Bank of India.

Dr. Anil Kumar Sharma is a General Manager in Department of Information Technology in Reserve Bank of India where he is in-charge of Payment Systems Application Division. He has been closely associated with the implementation of ISO 20022 messaging standards in Next-Generation Real-Time Gross Settlement System (NG-RTGS) in India. He is also a Principal member of the Software and Systems Engineering Sectional Committee, which is responsible for preparation of Indian Standards relating to processes, supporting tools and supporting technologies for the engineering of software products and systems and Interoperable Distributed Application Platforms and Services including Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Cloud Computing.

Dr. Sharma holds Ph.D. in Economics from Mumbai University and M.Phil. and Masters Degree in Statistics from University of Delhi.