Russell Burke is one of Ireland’s leading payment experts. In 2021 Russell established Juristic Limited, an independent consultancy business, that specialises in advising both applicant and regulated payments and e-money firms. He is an independent non-executive director on the boards of regulated payments businesses, myPOS Ltd. (where he also chairs the board audit committee), Associated Foreign Exchange Ireland, a member of the Corpay Group, and Owl Payments Europe Limited, a Tripadvisor company. He also works with fscom as a Senior Associate Consultant and an Associate Faculty Lecturer at the PAT Business School.

Russell has 47 years experience in banking and payments. He spent seven years with the Central Bank of Ireland as its Senior Payments and Electronic Money Authorisation Specialist. Prior to that, he was with Bank of Ireland for 36 years, spanning retail banking, treasury, offshore and, since 2000, payments, including seven years on secondment to the Irish Payment Services Organisation (IPSO, now part of BPFI) where he was responsible for the establishment of the National Payments Plan for Ireland. He represented Ireland on the European Payments Council’s Mobile Channel Working Group for six years and was a director of Mobey Forum, the global financial services industry association, for four years, two as deputy chair. Russell has been a guest speaker and panellist at numerous international and domestic industry events.