Our Approach
The Crossway Group, LLC, provides strategic consulting and professional training and education in Enterprise Risk Management and in Payment Systems, enabling your business to complete end-to-end risk management and payment system initiatives, from infrastructure and regulatory issues through operational implementation. We make complex topics and metrics (for example tri-party repo and HR analytics) understandable to varied audiences, both Wall Street and Main Street.
Our Story
Experts in central bank and corporate treasury management. Providing training and consulting services to update or launch programs in payments, risk analysis for innovations, emerging FinTech and legacy (check, ACH, wire) payments and securities transfers. Supporting business transactions for consumer, business and large-value payments, clearinghouses, and CCPs.
Meet the Team
We help organizations -- businesses and not-for profit enterprises -- solve problems by asking questions and training staff. The Crossway Group, LLC, promotes professional development and provide organizations with critical tools for identifying, setting priorities for, confronting, monitoring and reassessing their risks.
Michele Braun
Founder & Managing Executive
Current assignments include Director of the Institute for Managing Risk at the Manhattanville College School of Business.
For expertise in payments systems and in risk management, Ms. Braun draws on twenty years of experience with the Federal Reserve. As an officer at the NY Fed, she oversaw systemically important payment systems and worked with banks, clearinghouses, and CCPs to reduce risk in domestic and global payments infrastructures. She served as secretary for the Fed-sponsored, industry-chaired Payments Risk Committee and Tri-party Repo Infrastructure Reform Task Force. Previously, for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, she managed retail payment policies, oversaw Reserve Bank ACH and check operations, and worked to remove regulatory barriers to electronic payments innovation, including Check21. She was a key on-the-spot manager for Y2K planning, 9/11 payment services recovery, and Dodd-Frank reforms. Before joining the Fed, Ms. Braun directed treasury services for midsized and start-up companies and was an officer at the Chase Manhattan Bank.
Ms. Braun earned a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Her publications address risk and innovation in emerging payments, ACH fraud, corporate payment priorities, workers’ remittances, and low-value wire transfers. Ms. Braun is a current member of the Fairfield County Association of Financial Professionals and a former member of TMANY and the Greater Washington Area NCCMA.
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