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Mike Truter
Director, Head of Industry Engagement
Swift
Mike leads Industry Engagement at Swift, focused on strengthening collaboration across the global financial ecosystem and driving the evolution of payments.
He joined Swift in February 2023, bringing over 25 years of experience delivering banking and technology solutions across Europe and Asia. His passion for payments began while helping to deliver a regional SEPA platform in Europe and grew through his work on several pioneering innovation initiatives in Asia, including Project Ubin which explored the potential of digital ledger technology.
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
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Mike TruterDirector, Head of Industry EngagementSwift
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Umang MoondraChief Executive OfficerAPIX PlatformModerator
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. -
