Anu Widyalankara

Anu is a Payments Strategy and Technology Lead in the UK Payments Practice at EY. She has deep expertise panning over 17 years in Financial Services, leading and delivering strategy. M&A integration, complex transformation and new payments product development to financial services and cross-sector payments clients, focusing on Payments including Cross Border Payments and Transactional Banking

With a focus on designing and delivering payments innovation and payments strategy, Anu supports CTO’s and CIO’s through technology transformation and target architecture implementation. She specialises in key payments innovations and infrastructure such as Generative AI in payments, quantum computing, CBDCs and digital assets, APP fraud, real-time payments, ISO20022, SWIFT gpi, RTGS, open Banking, UK New Payments Architecture, central bank digital currencies and Blockchain technologies. Her experience also extends to corporate treasury services, merchant services, instant payments infrastructure and cross-border payments. She has led the growth and advisory for FinTechs in the market and has driven a number of innovation topics. She currently manages a number of Payments sector alliances for EY”