Summary
Martin Steven is a senior product leader with over two decades in payments and financial technology, combining deep hands-on software experience from early DOS days to modern API-driven systems. He has led solution design and product strategy across foreign exchange, digital wallets, core banking, and open banking—most notably architecting scalable cross-border infrastructure at IFX Payments and driving Volt’s global account-to-account checkout expansion across Europe, Australia, Brazil and the US. Currently focused on launching PayTo-based real-time payments in Australia and pioneering Smart Payment Agreements to automate recurring revenue flows, he blends technical rigor with commercial sensibility. Based in Queensland after a decade in Australia, he brings rare continuity from low-level development through to senior product strategy, enabling pragmatic delivery of complex payment rails. Colleagues describe him as a systems thinker who turns regulatory and network complexity into elegant APIs that merchants can actually integrate.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Kennet School, Thatcham