RTGS.global
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Transforming Cross-Border Wholesale Settlement
Built for now
Designed for what’s next
Together, We Drive Settlement Forward
It’s about more than infrastructure. It’s about Financial Market Innovation that moves wholesale settlement forward.
RTGS.global delivers an instantaneous cross-border settlement service to banks, market infrastructures and others in the wholesale market.
- Payment vs Payment: Simultaneous exchange of central bank funds in one currency for another.
- Instant processing of a settlement instruction upon receipt, with funds available immediately
- Truly 24/7/365, not limited by cut-off times or payment and settlement system operational hours
Delivering Instantaneous Cross-Border Settlement Today
Our Technology
Bilateral Atomic Settlement is a financial market innovation, enabling instantaneous cross-border settlement of fiat currency, CBDC or other assets – 24/7/365
Our Legal & Operational Framework
RTGS.global’s liquidity settlement service is is a multi-lateral network for banks underpinned by a robust legal & operational framework
What’s More?
The RTGS.global leadership team has a proven track record at the pinnacle of the global payments industry, banking, fintech and market infrastructures
Flexibility to support multiple use cases
Improve intra-day liquidity management:
Make banks’ global liquidity movements and payments faster, cheaper, simpler and more reliable.
Optimise commercial cross-border payments:
Simplify the payment journey from sourcing liquidity through to the receipt of funds by the end beneficiary.
Eliminate settlement risk for wholesale:
Eliminate settlement risk for interbank trades: settle both legs of a cross-border transaction instantly and simultaneously.
A Global FMI For The Digital Age
We believe that to make something truly useful, you have to solve for today’s problems while also thinking about what’s next. For wholesale cross-border settlement, this means delivering instantaneous, PvP settlement for fiat currency today, whilst anticipating a future that includes CBDCs and potentially myriad other digital asset classes. RTGS.global is built for now, designed for what’s next.
Leadership
CEO
Dave Sissens
Dave Sissens
Dave’s entire career has been built around the elimination of settlement risk and optimisation of liquidity – first in a 23-year career at CLS, then in various advisory and fintech leadership roles.
COO
Gordon Cooper
Gordon Cooper
Gordon spent nearly two decades in a global career with Visa, latterly as GM for Southeast Asia emerging markets. He is the former COO of Intel-backed Kinduct.
CTO
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith
Prior to RTGS.global, Andrew was the founding CTO of CloudZync and ClearBank. He has deep domain expertise in banking, payment systems, cloud, and enterprise IT.
Chief Risk Officer
Paul Fraser
Paul Fraser
Paul is a career risk management professional, having worked at Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and Standard Chartered.
Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer
Victoria Cumings
Victoria Cumings
Based in New York City, Victoria is an FX industry veteran, having worked at HSBC, CLS and GFMA.
Chief Commercial Officer
Jarrad Hubble
Jarrad Hubble
Jarrad is an experienced commercial leader with over 15 years in senior roles across Fintech and investment banking. He has led the global expansion of foreign exchange and international payment businesses, driving go to market strategies and the development of sales teams.
Advisors & Extended Team
Founder, Director
Nick Ogden
Nick Ogden
Nick is the inventor of e-commerce and one of the founding fathers of fintech. He is the serial entrepreneur behind WorldPay, ClearBank, and CashFlows, among other successful businesses. He is a director with multiple fintechs.
Executive Director
Jim Cowles
Jim Cowles
Jim is the former CEO for Citi in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Following a four-decade career in banking, he now holds directorships with multiple high-growth fintechs.
Investor Director
Marcus Treacher
Marcus Treacher
Marcus has over 35 years experience driving innovation and business growth in the transaction banking and payments industries worldwide. As well as an executive leadership career at HSBC, Citigroup and Ripple, Marcus also served as a member of the Global Board of SWIFT from 2010-2016, and as a director of CHAPS Co.
Advisor
Phil Kenworthy
Phil Kenworthy
Phil Kenworthy is the former CEO of the UK’s high value payment system, CHAPS and held senior executive positions at CREST and CLS. Phil is an Independent Non Executive Director at ClearBank and the Chair of the WhiteChapel Think Tank on Distributed Ledger Technology. Phil began his career at Bank of England.
Advisor
Dr. Ruth Wandhöfer
Dr. Ruth Wandhöfer
Ruth has been named a Top 10 Global Fintech Influencer. She is a former MD at Citi and holds a PhD in technology innovation in financial markets. Ruth is a non-executive director on multiple boards and is Chair of the UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) Panel.
Advisor
Jean-Michel Godeffroy
Jean-Michel Godeffroy
Jean-Michel’s distinguished career includes key roles at Banque de France as well as ECB, where he was Director General for payment systems and market infrastructure before assuming the Chairmanship of Europe’s securities settlement system, T2S.
Advisor
Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE
Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE
Lord Holmes is a member of the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee. His policy focus is on digital technology for the public good. Two of his areas of interest are Fintech and Regtech.
Advisor
Derrick Pearson
Derrick Pearson
Derrick spent forty-one years at Lloyds Bank, during which time he led large teams managing Treasury products including FX, Money Market, Fixed Income, Securities, Swaps and Trade Finance.
Advisor
Richard Peers
Richard Peers
Richard is a thought leader in sustainable finance and Contributing Editor with Finextra. He spent 23 years at Microsoft, with leadership roles in worldwide financial services.