Natasha de Terán
Natasha de Terán works at the intersection of financial services, technology, communications and public policy. Serving on a number of statutory panels, she writes and speaks on technology and finance – in particular the future of money and payments and the nexus between technology, security, public policy and finance. She also advises companies on public policy, communications and media engagement.
Natasha started her career in the financial markets as a practitioner, before becoming a journalist and later taking up communications, policy and regulatory roles. She has worked across Europe and headed up public policy, regulatory affairs and communications functions at large and systemically important international market infrastructures. In her various roles she has dealt with issues ranging from foreign policy and national security, to detailed derivatives rules and regulation; from payments innovation and data privacy issues to cybersecurity, competition and central clearing; and from financial literacy and financial inclusion to financial stability.
A co-author of The Pay Off: How changing the way we pay changes everything (Elliott & Thompson), Natasha is fascinated by the future of money and finance and passionate about financial inclusion and financial literacy.
A member of the Bank of England and HM Treasury's CBDC Engagement Forum, Natasha sits on two independent UK statutory bodies – the Financial Services Consumer Panel and the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) Panel. In 2021 she served on the advisory panel to the ‘Woolard Review’ of the future regulation of the unsecured credit market in the UK. She has given evidence before parliamentary committees and has served on both ESMA's Post Trade Standing Committee and the European Commission's Payment Systems Markets Expert Group.
A bilingual Spanish speaker, Natasha is available to write and speak about financial issues in both languages and is available for speaking engagements, panel moderation, podcasts and radio.
A cancer survivor, Natasha is also available to speak on working, living with and coming back from cancer and is always happy to talk to any fellow cancer travellers, their families and friends. She sits on the Board of Tenovus Cancer Care and is a volunteer for Bowel Cancer UK in Wales.
The Pay Off: How changing the way we pay changes everything was written by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Terán and published by Elliott & Thompson on 1 July 2021. The book explains the mechanics of payments, but it is also about the power, profundity and perversity of payments and about the things that you have never even thought about: the modernity and antiquity of today’s systems; the singularity and universality of payments; the consequences – social, economic, geopolitical and otherwise – of our payment choices. The book has been translated into Japanese, Korean, traditional and simplified Chinese.
To learn more, visit the book's website.
