Job Title
Senior Associate
Company
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Speaker Bio
Leslie Lee is a Senior Associate in the Fedwire Message Format and Standards group within the Wholesale Product Office (WPO) at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Leslie’s primary role is to advance the initiative to adopt the global ISO 20022 payments standard to replace the proprietary message format for the Fedwire Funds Service, beginning in November 2020 and ending in late 2023.

The ISO 20022 adoption is part of the Federal Reserve’s strategy to enhance the efficiency of both domestic and cross-border payments as described in Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System: Federal Reserve Next Steps in the Payments Improvement Journey.
Leslie Lee