Full Name
Shankar Kolinjavadi
Job Title
MD, Head of IT Commercial Banking, Lending & Payments
Company
Mizuho Bank Ltd.
Speaker Bio
A technologist with a long track record of managing financial, banking and payment applications across multiple banks. Currently manage ~150$ Billion a day in payments across Fed/CHIPS/SWIFT/ACH platforms. Has worked on engineering straight through processing across financial and lending systems to be deeply integrated with the payment process. Understand the needed integrations with requirements from Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") and compliance related anti-money laundering processes. In the last few institutions he has overseen the payments space be increased by a factor, integrating new lines of businesses from supply chain, real estate to equity funding. Currently implementing the ISO20022 transformation program at the bank.

A Technologist to the core, polyglot with experience in various programming paradigms and a wide range of queueing and database technologies. Has a post graduate in Cost Accounting & a Certified Public Accountant by Education.
Shankar Kolinjavadi