About

Shantanu Bera is a Payments Analyst at Barclays Corporate Banking with 9.7 years of relevant experience in the banking industry. He is an investment banker with expertise in end-to-end international wire payment settlement and investigation. Shantanu has a strong proficiency in swift payments, Nostro reconciliation, MT 103, MT 202, MT 199, MT 195, and servicing client's queries pertaining to payments. He is also proficient in settlement of currencies in FX spot market. Currently, Shantanu works as a Payments Analyst (Supervisor) at Barclays and manages the day-to-day operations of the payments team. Previously, he worked at Bank of America as a Team Developer where he was responsible for identifying the root cause of outstanding breaks, reconciliation of related breaks after investigation, handling BCNR queries of clients, recalling duplicate payments, and booking trades for incoming wires/payments. Shantanu has detailed knowledge of MT 103, MT 202, MT 199, SWIFT, BIC, IBAN, and has experience in re-effecting payments, booking a trade, sending amending instructions, failed trade monitoring, and settlement of exotic currencies. Shantanu holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Finance from Integrated Academy of Management and Technology, and a Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) degree in Business Administration and Management from Global Institute of Science and Technology, Haldia. He is proficient in Swift and has end-to-end knowledge of international settlement markets and FX spot market. Shantanu was part of the EMEA payment investigation process migration in 2017 and the ASIA payment investigation process migration in 2018. He has managed US clients and worked with US counterparts directly. With his experience in payments and investigation, Shantanu is an asset to any organization in the banking and finance industry.