Barbara Pacheco
SVP, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Pacheco is a senior vice president and a member of the Management Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. She heads the Financial Services Division of the Bank, which provides payments services and support to financial institutions across the United States. She also is responsible for the Bank's Payments System Research group and for building customer relationships with financial institutions in the seven states of the Tenth District of the Federal Reserve System. Pacheco also provides program management leadership for the Federal Reserve System's payment system modernization initiative, a multi-faceted plan for collaborating with payment system stakeholders including large and small businesses, emerging payments firms, card networks, payment processors, consumers and financial institutions to enhance the speed, safety and efficiency of the U.S. payment system.She holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and is a graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.