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Robert Sullivan

Robert Sullivan

Public Policy & Strategy Director at Token
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Career History Robert is Public Policy & Strategy Director at Token. He is an economist and regulatory/public policy professional with a focus on the payments sector. Robert represents Token on the Berlin Group's openFinance Advisory Group, in which strategic, business and technical topics related to the use and evolution of the openFinance standards are discussed. He has extensive experience across both the private and public sectors, having previously held senior policy positions at the UK Payment Systems Regulator and a global payment processing firm. He also worked for a number of years as an economic consultant for a big-four professional services firm.

Blogs

Open Banking

Will the EC’s new payments legislative proposals help unlock Open Banking’s true potential?

09 Aug 2023

It’s now been over a month since the European Commission (EC) published their package of proposals for the next generation of payments regulation in the EU. The proposals – which will see PSD2 split into a new directive (PSD3) and regulation (Payment Services Regulation/PSR) – have generated plenty of headlines since their release. But what are t...

Open Banking

Why clamping down on APP fraud is a delicate balancing act for the PSR

21 Feb 2023

On 25 November 2022, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) closed its consultation on new proposals to help address Authorised Push Payment (APP) scams. Before it proceeds to implementation, we encourage the PSR to consider the potential impact of its APP scam proposals on the ability of Open Banking-enabled account-to-account (A2A) payments to effe...

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