Reed Luhtanen
U.S. Faster Payments Council
Reed Luhtanen is Executive Director of the U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC). The FPC is an inclusive, industry-led membership organization whose mission is to facilitate a world-class payment system where Americans can safely and securely pay anyone, anywhere, at any time and with near-immediate funds availability.
Reed has extensive experience in the payments industry and has served on myriad industry bodies, most recently an officer on the FPC Board of Directors; the Federal Reserve-sponsored Governance Framework Formation Team, which created the FPC; and the Corporate Advisory Group for The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments System.
Prior to FPC, he spent roughly 15 years at Walmart, departing as Senior Director of Global Treasury
Reed is the host of The Off the Rails podcast which focuses on the emergence of faster and instant payments in the US. No surprise there. And he's a Founding Member of "Payments Beer Nerds™"
Reed has a BA in Political Science from the University of Arkansas’ Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and a J.D. from the University of Arkansas School of Law.
