Lyle Horsley
Head of Fintech, South African Reserve Bank
Lyle Horsley is the head of fintech at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and currently serves as the chairperson of the Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group (IFWG) in South Africa. In her current role, areas of focus include crypto assets; open finance; central bank digital currencies; artificial intelligence and tokenisation and advancing practical explorative projects to understand the policy and regulatory implications of emerging technologies for the financial sector. The SARB’s Fintech Unit also co-leads the IFWG’s Innovation Hub, made up of the Regulatory Guidance Unit, the Regulatory Sandbox and the Innovation Accelerator.
Lyle is an admitted attorney and conveyancer in SA and obtained her LLM (cum laude) from the University of Witwatersrand.