Christopher Burtch

Christopher Burtch

MD, Head of FI Sales Americas, Transaction Banking, Standard Chartered

Chris is the Head of Financial Institution Sales for the Americas, based in New York. He has been with the bank since 2011, when he joined the Financial Institutions team in Singapore. Prior to Standard Chartered, Chris worked for several start-ups in Toronto and Hong Kong in the fields of asset management and television media. Chris holds an M.A. in Economics from McGill University and a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University.

15:00 - 16:00

Panel Discussion: Positioning Payments and Digital Assets as Strategic Drivers of Risk and Profitability

  • Linking payments innovation to liquidity, funding and capital strategy
  • Using digital-asset infrastructure for efficiency, transparency and margin optimization
  • Leveraging data from payments and crypto channels for enterprise-wide risk insight
  • Understanding how risk excellence enables profitable innovation and competitiveness