Richard Barr

Company Director & Founder

Richard holds a B.S. in International Business Administration from a leading California University. His professional experience spans 21 years, 5 of which were spent with a leading U.S. Bank. Another 5 were spent honing his global banking expertise, involved with Trade Finance and cross border banking. 10 years have been in the Private and High-tech sectors providing high-level consulting services, business analysis, project management and training to a wide banking clientele spanning the globe.

More recently as an Advisor to a central bank on RTGS, Payment Systems Reform and Continuous Linked Settlement Projects he was involved in setting up the original project as well as providing inputs into various specialized aspects such as (1) other payment & settlement systems, (2) securities settlements (3) technology, (4) RFI product analysis (5) RTGS business model, (6) RFP development, (7) system testing, (8) operations and (9) Project Management. Specific specialist areas handled include RTGS System Design, Technology Risk Assessment, Complete design and execution of functionality tests and follow through leading to successful user acceptance testing, and system communications & SWIFT.

He has spent extensive time with a diversity of “financial institutional” clients in South Africa, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Netherlands, Greece, Bermuda, Israel, Malawi, United Kingdom, North America and many other countries. Richard has filled the role of advisor to central banks on payment systems and technical payments issues.