Nancy Atkinson is a senior analyst at Aite Group, LLC. She specializes in wholesale banking issues including global wholesale payments (e.g., automated clearing house, wire transfers, real-time gross settlement (RTGS), commercial cards, SEPA, UK Faster Payments and checks), the financial industry impacts of healthcare (including health savings accounts), supply chain management, working capital management and trade finance/services.
She has been widely quoted in various industry trade publications, including American Banker, Bank Systems & Technology, Cards & Payments, Prepaid Trends, and Wall Street & Technology. She has spoken at industry events such as the Visa Payment Forum, ETA Annual Meeting & Expo, NACHA's Concurrent Council Meeting, NACHA's Payments, TEXPO (regional AFP), Phoenix-Hecht, Infoline's Graduate School of Electronic Payments, the National Association of State Treasurers and International Payment Systems.
Prior to joining Aite Group, Ms. Atkinson was a First Vice President of Institutional Marketing at Mellon Bank. During her more than 20-year tenure at Mellon, Ms. Atkinson developed new products and services, focused on cross-selling institutional services, and introduced new eCommerce supported services. She worked extensively in Global Cash Management (GCM) and with Mellon Lab and Online Services, and supported electronic payment products, including Wire Transfer, Automated Clearing House (ACH), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and the private-labeled business of GCM (now called Working Capital Solutions).
Ms. Atkinson is a former Vice Chairperson of the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) Cross-Border ACH Council that developed U.S.-Canada-Mexico cross-border ACH capabilities. She is, also, a former Executive Committee Member of the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC), where she prototyped the Bank Internet Payment System (BIPS), an early eXtensible Markup Language (XML) based payment protocol.
Ms. Atkinson is a Certified Cash Manager (CCM), and a formerly Accredited Automated Clearing House Professional (AAP). She holds an MBA from Cornell University and a BA from William Smith College.