Ashley Ferguson Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Technical Product Owner & Solution Designer - Corporate Banking IntegrationLeading the design and delivery of corporate-to-bank integration channels across EMEA, specialising in ISO 20022 messaging standards and enterprise payment solutions. I architect and own mission-critical financial integration platforms that enable seamless corporate treasury operations.- Own and manage enterprise Host-to-Host (H2H) platform supporting SWIFT FileAct and SFTP connectivity, enabling corporates to initiate payments and receive real-time status reporting across multiple EMEA branches.- Lead development of corporate integration channels including PSD2 Open Banking APIs, Confirmation of Payee (CoP), and online banking platforms- Design and implement ISO 20022 payment initiation (pain.001) solutions across SEPA, CHAPS, FPS, SWIFT and BACS payment schemes- Architect cash management solutions including payment status reporting (pain.002), scheduled statements (camt.052/053), and automated statement forwarding for multi-banked clients- Drive vendor selection and delivery oversight whilst managing relationships with internal stakeholders and corporate clients- Translate complex business requirements into detailed technical specifications, bridging Global Transaction Banking product teams with technical delivery teamsCore expertise:ISO 20022 messaging (pain.001, pain.002, pain.007, pain.008, camt.052/053)Payment schemes (SEPA Credit Transfer/Direct Debit, CHAPS, FPS, SWIFT, BACS)Integration technologies (SWIFT FileAct, SFTP, MQ, APIs)Corporate banking platforms (H2H, Open Banking, Cash Management)Payment processing and treasury automationBanking regulatory frameworks (PSD2, SEPA rulebooks)I operate as product owner, solution architect, and service manager, taking ownership from initial concept through implementation and into BAU support. Particular focus on technical analysis and thorough solution design, ensuring robust and scalable financial integration solutions.

London, England, United Kingdom

Project manager and technical business analyst for corporate digital integration channels (PSD2 API Open Banking, Open Finance, H2H Host to Host) using ISO 20022 standards.

London, United Kingdom

The project manager/business analyst role involved: initiating and completing projects to implement changes to payments and cash management systems, meeting regularly with stakeholders to maintain and priortise the payments change backlog, and staying up to date with the industry through conferences. During this time I also ran and completed a major project to implement a new secure payments channel that integrates directly with customer systems. My success on this project led me to take on one of the PSD2 Programme sub projects responsible for API response.

On a contract basis, I performed manual end-to-end testing for the bank's extensive payment system renewal project. The testing included creating and processing SWIFT MT and ISO 20022 XML payments. I wrote a number of excel visual basic tools to assist with the creation of payment messages as well as a tool adopted by my peers to streamline the process of submitting payments into the system. I left the project to take a permanent position with the bank as a project manager/business analyst in their payment systems team.

London, United Kingdom

Manual testing of UK payments and settlements applications.