Taira Hall

Taira Hall is head of enterprise payments at Citizens Financial Group, Inc. In her role she collaborates and partners closely across Consumer, Business and Commercial lines of business to drive an effective unified payment strategy for Citizens. In addition, she leads the Embedded Finance practice across Citizens. With a penchant for innovation and partnership, Taira has 20 years of banking and payments experience. She most recently served as Senior Vice President of Embedded Finance, B2B & Strategic Innovation Executive at FIS. She has a proven track record of building new business lines in high growth areas, and has expertise in fintech, embedded finance and B2B payments.

Hall has held executive leadership roles at Visa and Citigroup focused on developing and deploying market-leading global solutions. She has led the deployment and growth of the Embedded Finance business across BaaS, card issuance and other VAS areas. In 2023, Taira was a nominee for the USA Award Women in Payments and in 2019, was named one of PaymentSource's "Most Influential Women in Payments," honoring her accomplishments in the innovation and payments space and as a leader and a mentor of women across the industry.

Broadening financial inclusion around the world has remained one of Taira’s guiding principles throughout her career, and she is committed to supporting organizations that provide for sustainable local impact. She has served on the Board of several organizations, including One Acre Fund and the Peer Health Exchange. Taira holds her Bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University and her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children.