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Anu Widyalankara

Director, Payments Strategy and Technology, Ernst & Young LLP

Innovator. Creative thinker. Empathetic leader driving diversity of thought through inclusivity. Marathon runner. Pianist.

Anu is a Payments Strategy and Technology Director at EY LLP in the UK, with over 17 years of experience in financial services. She focuses on complex transformations, M&A integration, strategy development and execution, and new payment product design for financial services and cross-sector clients. She has an emphasis across retail, commercial and investment banking, and wider payments and transactional banking, with exposure across Europe, America, Africa and Asia.

Passionate about long-term value creation, Anu helps clients design and deliver payments transformation, supporting CEOs, CTOs and CIOs with their growth, compliance and modernization agendas.

Anu's broad range of experience in payments technologies includes Real-Time Payments, ISO 20022, Swift GPI, RTGS, Open Banking, UK New Payments Vision, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), CBDCs, digital assets and fraud. Her extensive experience also spans corporate treasury services, merchant services and payments infrastructure. Additionally, Anu manages key payments sector alliances and advises FinTech firms.

How Anu is building a better working world

"I believe our working world thrives in diversity. Diversity in background leads to diversity of thought, which infuses creativity and innovation into how we tackle the day-to-day challenges faced by consumers, businesses, and society at large. Embracing different perspectives not only enhances problem-solving but also drives progress and fosters a more inclusive environment."

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