Bio

Nasreen Quibria is a recognized payments industry authority, her expertise encompasses the financial ecosystem, spanning disruptive emerging technologies (blockchain, cryptocurrency, CBDC, NFC) to corporate treasury, cash management, bank transformation and payment market infrastructure modernization efforts. These are areas she also covered as a former industry analyst and as an executive consultant with prominent firms. More recently at ICBA, she focused on technology and policy issues with cryptocurrencies, CBDC, open banking, and other emerging tech areas. Before, as senior advisor in innovation and technology to NACHA, the governance organization for the ACH Network, her work centered on advancing standardization efforts in U.S. financial services enabled by ISO 20022 and APIs. Quibria has a track record of leading successful initiatives in the financial services and technology industries. She was instrumental in redefining the direction of the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) and a key architect of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Emerging Payments Research Group (EPRG). Prior to the Fed, as director of product development and management at Eliza Corporation, she played a pivotal role in transforming a start-up company into a profitable business. During her tenure at Eliza, Quibria became the co-inventor of two patents in artificial intelligence. Quibria has served on several boards and committees, including NEACH, Afinis (a Nacha subsidiary), the Federal Reserve, and other industry organizations. Quibria also serves as an Advisory member of the forward-thinking initiative, The Digital Dollar Project. She is a regulator contributor of thought leadership pieces to leading trade journals and an invited speaker at industry events. Quibria holds a B.A. in economics from Wellesley College and an MBA in finance and strategy from Boston College.