Lauran Macare

Head of Data and Risk, Payments Technology at Natwest

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Lauran leads Payments Data and Risk for NatWest Payments Technology, a UK bank that is driving the ownership of data products through a complex architectural stack. She leverages artificial intelligence to transform payments data and optimise front-to-back data flows into strategic assets, ensuring quality and operational integrity throughout the data lifecycle. Before joining NatWest in January 2024, Lauran was at Nationwide Building Society, where she led technology risk and spearheaded technical implementations, including print and digital communication capabilities. Her early career was spent at JP Morgan, gaining extensive experience across the Investment Bank, Securities, and Treasury departments, which laid the groundwork for her current expertise in financial technology and risk.