Rūta Merkevičiūtė is the Head of the Digital Finance Unit at the European Banking Authority which is responsible for the EBA’s work on monitoring financial innovation and identifying areas where a regulatory and supervisory response might be needed. She is also leading the EBA’s work on crypto-assets with a focus on the Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation (MICAR). Until recently, she led the work on the Digital operational resilience for the financial sector (DORA).

Previously, she was Director of Financial Services and Markets Supervision Department at the Bank of Lithuania, that was responsible for capital markets and prudential supervision of less significant financial institutions and financial services. Rūta has professional legal qualification as an attorney-at law and has been working both in private sector and financial sector’s supervision for the past 18 years