Ghita Erling | Payments Association of South Africa (PASA)
CEO
Ghita has more than 24 years of experience in corporate and retail banking, transactional banking, and payments.
She is the CEO of the Payments Association of South Africa (PASA), the industry body mandated by the South African Reserve Bank to assist it in managing the National Payment System. She has been instrumental in working with the broader South African payments industry to design the Payments Industry Body which will replace PASA, as an inclusive body for all entities offering payments services.
In her last role, she was responsible for building and operationalising the payments systems for the Discovery Bank start-up. She has served as a director on the boards of BankservAfrica and SBV Services.
She has a master’s degree in engineering and a diploma in flute performance and serves on the board of a conservation NGO.