Biography
Gareth's research focuses on Payments. As part of the payments team, his prime focus is on corporate payments, working closely with his colleagues in the Corporate Banking team.
He is a leading expert on:
- bank payment processing, and is the analyst who has been covering payment services hubs the longest in the industry;
- payment networks and infrastructures, including Swift, ACH and Wires;
- and real-time payments, a topic he has been active in since 2006, and has worked in on almost every continent.
Gareth has been widely quoted in the media, including American Banker, New York Times and BBC News, and is a frequent speaker at such events as Sibos, EBADay, NACHA Payments, as well as private events around the world.
Prior to Celent, Gareth worked for Secura Monde International, a leading cash consultancy; as Regional Research Director of European Payments at TowerGroup; and in corporate strategy at VocaLink Ltd, the UK ACH and ATM network.
Gareth has a Bachelor of Science in Quantity Surveying from the University of Portsmouth, and a Post-Graduate Degree in Information Science from the University of North London.
Latest insights
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28 January 2022
Banks in the US have been slow in adopting real-time payments, and have often considered them as either a p2p payment type or a threat to Wire r… -
4 November 2021
Banks around the world are modernizing their payment systems to address the changing demands of their customers and regulators. Real-time paymen… -
27 October 2021
Transaction banking, including cash management and payments, has been hit hard over the past 18 months. A sharp downturn in interest rates in 20… -
30 August 2021
In mid 2021, Celent undertook a large, global survey of banks to create a worldwide State of the Nation for payments modernization for non-card…
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10 December 2021
To be sure, it would also be legally difficult for the U.S. to ban Russia from Swift. "The U.S. has no jurisdiction over Swift," said Gareth Lod…
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17 November 2021
Gareth Lodge, financial services analyst at Celent, said that he was taken aback by the news. He agreed that it is not uncommon for retailers, o…
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“In an increasingly real-time world, there needs to be a system that is better suited to the needs of instant cross-border payments," Gareth Lod…