Who we are
The Emerging Payments Association is a thriving community of payments
professionals whose goals are to strengthen and expand the payments
industry to benefit all stakeholders.
Ambassadors
EPA Ambassadors are subject matters experts who are supporting the association and membership with their expert knowledge and experience from the payments industry.
“We make a difference in the payments industry. Emerging Payments Association Asia provides our members a unique collaboration platform for Asia Payments.”
Lance Blockley
MD The Initiatives Group
As an EPA Ambassador, we entrust you with our brand.
- Support us in creating awareness, attention, and desire from new members to join
- Help our current members who want to understand more about the emerging payments and how it works
- Help improve our community’s effectiveness
Lance Blockley
Managing Director, Initiatives Group
Experienced management consultant focused on financial services, and particularly payments (such as credit card, debit card, prepaid cards, electronic funds transfer, cash, etc).
Dr Brad Pragnell
Principal, 34 South 45 North
For over 20 years, I’ve been deeply involved in the financial services industry providing leadership and delivering meaningful outcomes for member organizations, their stakeholders, and regulators.
Antony Morris
Principal, 34 South 45 North
Managing Director,Triniti; iSky Research
Fannette Hsin
EPA Asia, Ambassador
Fannette is an EPAA Amabassador and the lead on our Cross Borader Payments project. She long carreer in Payments for HSBC, JPM, Santander and Standard Charted in Wholesale/Global Markets, Private Banking/ Retail Banking/Correspondent banking as well as trade finance. She lead the FX and Derivatives working group to produce the SWIFT Offshore Renminbi Best Practices when the Offshore CNY was first introduced.
Zennon Kapron
Founder & Director, Kapronasia
Richard Reid
Experienced Executive
Experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the financial and technology industries both locally and internationally.
Nikesh Lalchandani
Experienced Banker
Nikesh is an experienced banker, with a background in technology and finance, he has worked in payments and innovation for many years in fintechs, banks and startups. He has studied postgraduate information technology and finance, is a Chartered Banker and Senior Member of the Australian Computer Society, IEEE and Fellow of FINSIA. He is the author of the book “Payments and Banking in Australia: From coins to cryptocurrency”.
Rajiv Madane
Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific
Rajiv a self driven, digital innovation and FinTech leader who has been involved in the Banking and FinTech ecosystem for over 30 years. He has held senior leadership positions with various multinational companies in USA, Europe and Asia Pacific. Rajiv has helped companies like FIS Global, Wipro, ACI Worldwide, Fiserv grow their business in Asia Pacific with innovative tech solutions for the banking industry. Rajiv was involved in the launch of the APIX platform by MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore), IFC and ASEAN Bankers Association at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2018.
Leanne Bradley
Co-CEO & Principal,Suite2go
Connector and consultant that helps businesses realise their potential
Experienced financial services professional with a demonstrated history
of working in the wealth, and investment management industry.
Alumni Ambassadors
Anurag Vasisth
Business Leader
The strategic business environment is challenging industries at an unprecedented pace. This lead to a need
for dynamic, innovation and ethical business leadership more than ever,
to consistently drive shareholder value, balanced with value to the customers
and employees.