Natalie Lewis is a partner and Head of the Fintech, Market Infrastructure and Payments (FMIP) Group at Travers Smith.

Natalie is regularly sought out for strategic advice in relation to wholesale and retail payments, securities settlement, and the development of innovative and cutting-edge products and systems using cloud technologies, distributed ledger technology and digital assets. Her clients include the operators of systemically important financial market infrastructures, payment institutions and other fintech clients – who collectively move trillions of pounds' worth of funds and assets every day.

Natalie has received significant recognition for her work – among a series of awards over several years, she has been listed on the last two editions of the Innovate Finance Women in Fintech PowerList, and she was recently elected to join the Advisory Board of The Payments Association. This is a major leadership position in the payments sector and places Natalie at the heart of a number of major initiatives, ranging from stablecoins to the Payments Forward Plan. She also contributes her legal expertise to a variety of legal bodies, most notably the City of London Law Society's Financial Law Committee, and the Financial Markets Law Committee.