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As President of Centralized Operations at FirstBank, Lavonne ensures seamless, compliant, and efficient processing across all fraud prevention functions and payment channels, including instant payments, cards, checks, ACH, and wires. Her extensive experience in payments and operational excellence acquired in over 20 years in banking has positioned Lavonne as a trusted authority. In addition to her professional role, she is deeply involved in community and...

Kate is an award-winning Payments and Banking leader with proven success building teams and products solutions from the ground up. She is a driven and innovative strategist that excels with execution using a hands-on approach and prioritizing the end-to-end customer experience. Kate currently leads Payments for Business Banking at Citizens and previously spent most of her 15-year banking career managing commercial product solutions at Citizens...

Steve Kenneally works at ABA on issues related to a range of payment systems including check, ACH, card, wires, as well as coins and paper money. He spends an increasing amount of time focused on emerging payment technologies such as mobile payments, virtual currencies, and blockchain technology, with an eye towards making them faster, safer and frictionless in the future. He is the staff liaison...

Marcia is thought leader in emerging payments with over 15 years of experience in the financial services and payments industry, and 5+ years in fraud and identity. She has led international, cross-functional teams to build and deliver secure products and solutions. Marcia has worked at industry leaders such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Visa, FIS Global, and LexisNexis Risk Solutions. She excels in creating a vision, connecting people to ideas, and bringing game-changing solutions...