Brad Pragnell

Industry Body & Regulator – Payments Canada, AusPayNet​

Payments Canada

• Member of Product Strategy and Management tasked to create a new multi-year roadmap for Payments Canada’s systems.
• Requirements development for the new real-time payments capability (Real-Time Rail). Provided strategic and business processes to committee that conducted assessment the market incumbent.
• Contributed to Creation of the Modernization Roadmap and Industry Plan

AusPayNet (previously APCA)

• Led strategic policy and engagement activities. Led the development of “Low Value Payments Roadmap” which resulted in New Payments Platform (NPP) which went live in February 2018
• Led Same Day Settlement in Australia’s Direct Entry System. Moved industry from payments system settled at 9 am the next business day to 5 additional intraday settlements.
• Led the industry response on Account Number Portability initiative, which resulted in a new account switching service enabling consumers to switch their accounts between financial institutions, while not imposing significant costs on industry.

Foundation & Not-For-Profit

• Strategic, business and policy advisor for the Micro-Payments Gateway Project, a new real-time payments system for Pakistan. Member of the Technical Committee evaluating vendors.

Training

• Collaboration as a web-caster at Columbia’s Digital Financial Services Observatory