Tony McLaughlin

Tony McLaughlin is responsible for Emerging Payments and Business Development in Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) business. He works on the future of money and the product-market fit between regulated finance and the modern digital economy. His core interest is to ensure that Citi solutions and the wider banking industry meet the emerging payment and settlement needs of digital native commerce. He provides advice on the future of digital payments to Governments, Regulators, Fintechs, Big Techs, Multi-national Corporates and Financial Institutions and is the originator of the ‘Regulated Liability Network’ concept that explores the application of shared ledger technology to the sovereign currency system.

He joined Citi in 2004 and has been Cash Management Head for Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong and the Global Transaction Services Head for the United Kingdom, spearheading Citi’s engagement with large public sector clients and payment aggregators. Tony was responsible for the design and development of ABN AMRO’s Third Party Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) offering, core electronic banking platform and Transactional Foreign Exchange solution. At HSBC Holdings, he fulfilled a global strategy role for the Payments and Cash Management business, helping to set the five-year strategy. Before that he was a Senior Product Manager for Barclays Bank with responsibility for electronic collections products including International Direct Debits.