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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201Apache-2.0last commit 3mo ago

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.

UK wholesale digital markets diagram showing tokenised gilts, settlement, digital assets, tokenised deposits, regulatory coordination, and capital markets infrastructure
Digital Securities Sandbox · Tokenised Gilts · Atomic DvP

Wholesale Digital Markets in the UK: Tokenised Gilts, Settlement, and the New Champion Role

The UK Wholesale Digital Markets Champion role makes tokenised gilts, DLT-based settlement, and digital wholesale finance a national competitiveness project. The 2026 strategic question for banks is design discipline — which tokenised assets sit on which platform, how settlement risk is evidenced, and how to defend the City's wholesale role against Singapore, Switzerland, and Frankfurt.

ISO 20022 payment data product diagram showing structured addresses, purpose codes, reconciliation, fraud detection, liquidity forecasting, sanctions screening, and analytics products
ISO 20022 · Structured Address · CBPR+

ISO 20022 After Migration: Turning Payment Data into Banking Products in 2026

ISO 20022 after migration is not a project closeout — it's the start of a data-product opportunity. Structured addresses, purpose codes, invoice details, and rich status events become reconciliation, fraud, liquidity, and compliance products. The 2026 question is design discipline: which payment data carries which client workflow, priced for which corporate.

Compliance stack diagram showing DORA resilience, EU AI Act transparency, data sovereignty, cloud concentration risk, audit logs, model governance, and third-party providers
DORA · EU AI Act · Data Sovereignty

DORA, the EU AI Act, and Data Sovereignty: The 2026 Compliance Stack for Banks

DORA, the EU AI Act, GDPR, cloud concentration risk, and data sovereignty converge into one 2026 compliance stack for banks. The strategic question is design discipline — running compliance, AI governance, ICT-resilience evidence, and sovereign-data choices as one architecture, not five parallel programmes.

Digital asset infrastructure diagram showing tokenised real-world assets, stablecoins, tokenised deposits, custody, settlement, collateral mobility, and bank platform layers
Digital Assets · Tokenisation · Stablecoins

Digital Assets in 2026: The Infrastructure Transition Banks Cannot Delay

Digital assets are no longer an innovation bet. They are a settlement, custody, and balance-sheet architecture question. Crypto is a ~$3 trillion asset class, stablecoins have reached ~$300 billion, and tokenised real-world assets grew ~300% in 2025. The strategic task for banks in 2026 is not whether to engage but how to design infrastructure, controls, and governance for a world where money, assets, and settlement become programmable.

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.