Sebastien Rousseau
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Sebastien Rousseau

Securing the future of banking
with agentic AI
and post-quantum cryptography.

Built for the edge. Architected for uncompromising resilience. Powering the next generation of global payments.

Authored & maintained

Open source for the
future of finance.

A portfolio of Python, Rust and JavaScript libraries I created and maintain. Open source, free to use, and applied to wholesale payments, cross-border settlement, financial data and quantum-resistant cryptography.

pain001 logo. Open-source ISO 20022 payment file automation by Sebastien Rousseau
Python · Payments

pain001

A Python library that automates ISO 20022 pain.001 payment file creation from CSV or SQLite. Built for the global migration from MT/MX to structured messages across SWIFT, SEPA and major schemes.

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pacs008 logo. Open-source ISO 20022 pacs.008 toolkit by Sebastien Rousseau
Python · Cross-border

pacs008

Generate, validate and deliver ISO 20022 pacs.008 FI-to-FI customer credit transfer messages. JSON Schema, XSD validation, IBAN across 75 countries, GDPR/PCI-DSS-compliant PII masking.

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Bank Statement Parser logo. Open-source finance toolkit by Sebastien Rousseau
Python · Finance

Bank Statement Parser

A finance-grade Python toolkit that turns multi-format bank statements into structured data. Designed for the realities of real-world statement files and the audit demands of regulated environments.

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Hash HSH logo. Open-source Rust hash library by Sebastien Rousseau
Rust · Security

Hash (HSH)

A Rust library implementing secure hash and digest algorithms for password encryption and verification. Designed with a quantum-resistant posture for the post-PQC era of authentication.

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KyberLib logo. Open-source Rust CRYSTALS-Kyber library by Sebastien Rousseau
Rust · Quantum

KyberLib

A robust Rust implementation of CRYSTALS-Kyber, the NIST FIPS 203 standard for general-purpose post-quantum encryption. The foundation for quantum-resistant payment authentication.

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noyalib logo. Open-source pure-Rust YAML 1.2 ecosystem by Sebastien Rousseau
Rust · YAML

noyalib

A pure-Rust YAML 1.2 ecosystem. Zero unsafe, 100% spec compliance (406 / 406 official suite), streaming-first serde, lossless CST and JSON-Schema validation. Library + CLI (noyafmt, noyavalidate) + LSP + MCP + WASM bindings.

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“Quantum computing threatens the cryptographic foundations of financial services. Payments, from real-time to cross-border settlement, rely on protections that quantum computing will eventually render obsolete.”

Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPAA) · September 2025

Quantum-Safe Payments.

Industry white paper for the Emerging Payments Association Asia. The structural threat quantum computing poses to payment infrastructure, and the case for coordinated action now.

Banner illustration for the EPAA Quantum-Safe Payments white paper

EPAA · September 2025

Why the payments industry must act now.

Regulators are treating harvest-now-decrypt-later as a credible present risk. This paper outlines the structural threat and the urgent case for coordinated action across wholesale payment rails.

Read the white paper

Latest

From the desk.

Recent research and writing on quantum-safe cryptography, ISO 20022 migration and the future of wholesale payments.

Aerial view of the City of London at dusk — symbolising the post-quantum migration banks must run from NIST standards into inspectable cryptographic code
KyberLib · Post-Quantum Cryptography · Quantum-Safe Banking

KyberLib and the Post-Quantum Banking Migration in 2026: From Standards to Code

KyberLib turns the post-quantum banking migration from policy paper into inspectable Rust — FIPS 203 ML-KEM key encapsulation, hybrid classical-plus-quantum handshakes, no_std compilation for HSMs, crypto-agile abstraction boundaries, and the DORA Article 5 governance evidence boards now need.

Glowing data-centre rack stack at night — symbolising the inspectable, agent-controllable, open-source edge that CloudCDN is built on
CloudCDN · Open Source · CDN

CloudCDN: An Open-Source Blueprint for the AI-Native Edge in 2026

CloudCDN is an open-source blueprint for the AI-native edge — a zero-trust MCP gateway with 42 tools, atomic Durable Objects rate limiting, WebAuthn passkeys, signed URLs, SLSA Level 3 provenance, and 3,185 tests at 100% coverage, mapped to DORA, BCBS 239, and Basel III.

Visual register for the wholesale-payments shift in 2026 — messaging migration giving way to programmable settlement across ISO 20022, tokenised deposits, real-time rails, and cross-border atomicity.
Wholesale Payments · ISO 20022 · Tokenised Deposits

The Wholesale Payments Index in 2026: ISO 20022, Tokenised Deposits, Real-Time Rails, and Cross-Border Settlement

An index framework for measuring wholesale-payments readiness in 2026: ISO 20022 structured-address compliance ahead of SWIFT's November 2026 milestone, tokenised-deposit settlement, BIS Project Agorá cross-border atomicity, real-time rail orchestration, and liquidity efficiency. Four percentages — structured-data completeness, rail-routing optimality, settlement-finality lag, and Agorá-corridor coverage — turn payment-operations posture into supervisory-ready evidence.

Circuit-board pattern resolving into a cityscape skyline — the visual register chosen for cloud-native banking: platform-engineering primitives stitched into the bank's operational fabric.
Cloud Native Banking · DORA · Platform Engineering

The Cloud Native Banking Index in 2026: DORA, Platform Engineering, Sovereign Cloud, and Operational Resilience

An engineering blueprint for cloud-native banking in DORA audit phase. Five platform-engineering primitives — Kubernetes paved roads, Backstage portal, GitOps via ArgoCD, Open Policy Agent admission, OpenTelemetry end-to-end — produce Article 8 register evidence at the speed of the pipeline. Tested exit-execution annually for CTPP-dependent CIFs against BIA-derived RTO targets. Sovereign-cloud options (AWS European Sovereign Cloud, Microsoft EU Data Boundary, Bleu, Thales / S3NS) addressed as engineering decisions, not branding.

Experience

Brands along the way.

From global Tier-1 banks to consumer technology. Payments and digital product leadership across HSBC, PayPal, Barclays, Shazam, AKQA and Virgin Group.