Natasha Lapierre

Global Head of Strategy and Innovation Bottomline

Natasha is a proud member of ‘Women in Collaboration’ a global network of women’s groups that combine their voices to raise the profile of women and build a level playing field for future generations.

In her day job, Natasha drives platform strategy and innovation at Bottomline across financial messaging and payment connectivity, interoperability, and the adoption of new technologies including API enablement, AI and digital assets. 

Previously at Swift, she led the Product Management and Go-to-Market strategy for the network’s fraud and anomaly detection initiative from inception and convened the Anomaly Detection Working Group across 17 major financial institutions globally validating use cases with banks, digital-first payment service providers, and fintech partners. At Sibos 2025 she moderated a cross-industry panel on AI for detecting payment fraud in an interoperable way across schemes, bringing together Nasdaq Verafin, ANZ, EBA Clearing, Memo Bank, and Finologee.