Gynedi Srinivas is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank Group. He is engaged in assisting countries in improving safety, efficiency and reliability of financial market infrastructures (FMIs) and retail payment systems; participating in country and regional payment systems diagnostic studies; and supporting countries in reforming and implementing modern digital payment and settlement systems. In addition, he has participated as an expert payment system assessor in several FSAPs covering both G 20 countries and emerging economies and as peer reviewer for Level 2 implementation monitoring assessments. Before joining the World Bank, he worked at the Reserve Bank of India, for close to 3 decades in senior management positions responsible for payment systems policy, oversight and regulation. He was responsible for the oversight of all financial market infrastructures, retail payment systems including innovative payment products, and preparation and issuance of policy guidelines and regulations. He also headed the business sub-group for the Next Generation RTGS system in India. Srini has worked previously as a Member of Secretariat in the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures at the Bank for International Settlements, Basel from 2000 to 2003.