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Andrew McCormack
Chief Executive Officer
Nexus Global Payments
Andrew McCormack is the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of Nexus Global Payments. Andrew brings more than two decades of senior leadership experience across global payments, digital infrastructure, and financial innovation. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Etihad Payments, the national payments entity of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he played a key role in modernising the UAE’s domestic payment infrastructure. Prior to that, he was the founding Centre Head of the BIS Innovation Hub in Singapore and Chief Information Officer at Payments Canada, where he led the delivery of the country’s real-time payments platform.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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4:00–4:40pmThu 19 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
Technology Rewiring
The Price of Connection: What It Actually Takes to Build Cross-Border Payment Cooperation
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Joyce BoExecutive Vice President, Core Payments, Asia PacificMastercard
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Sohini RajolaExecutive Director, GrowthNational Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
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Andrew McCormackChief Executive OfficerNexus Global Payments
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Carlos ÁlvarezChief Risk Officer, Member of Executive TeamFLAR
About this session
Interoperability is widely recognised as a goal, but connecting one country’s payment system to another takes more than technology. It requires alignment on regulation, standards, governance and commercial incentives — as well as negotiation over how costs, risks and benefits are shared. This panel brings together the networks, national payment schemes, policymakers and multilateral hubs working to make cross-border payments more connected, examining where regulatory and commercial frictions persist, how different payment ecosystems can connect and scale across markets, and what smaller or newer markets need to participate on viable terms.
The discussion will explore where cross-border payment cooperation is working in practice, what it takes to make connections sustainable, and whether the biggest barriers to greater connectivity are technical, regulatory or commercial. -
