Nancy Atkinson is a senior analyst at Aite Group, LLC, specializing in wholesale banking issues including wholesale payments, trade finance and financial supply chain and working capital management. Her recent research has focused on electronic check processing and clearing, innovation in accounts payables and receivables, and transitions in the global wholesale payments market. Nancy has also examined opportunities to leverage procurement cards in corporate payables and the impact of health savings accounts on banks.

Ms. Atkinson has spoken at a number of domestic and international venues, including 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. She has been widely quoted in the banking trade press, in publications such as American Banker, Bank Systems & Technology and Bank Technology News.

Prior to joining Aite Group, LLC, 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.

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 protocol.

Ms. Atkinson is a Certified Cash Manager (CCM), and a formerly Accredited Automated Clearing House Professional (AAP). She holds an M.B.A. from Cornell University and a B.A. from William Smith College.