MEET CARLO DE MEIJER
Carlo R.W. de Meijer is an independent Economist and Senior Researcher.
Till 1 October 2015 he worked at the Market Engagement Department of Services Payments at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
He received a Master’s degree (cum laude) in International Economics at the University of Tilburg in 1977.
During his career at ABN, ABN AMRO and Royal Bank of Scotland, Carlo has held a large number of posts in the banking sector of international finance, both as a senior economist and as a private investment advisor.
He has been a member of various national and European committees and working groups preparing the launch of the euro.
His main areas of focus are nowadays the payments, securities/derivatives, trade finance, supply chain finance, standards and cash management environment and its developments.
Carlo has published many articles on various international and financial topics.
He has been one of the editors, next to Steve Everett and Willem van Alphen, of the International Cash Management Handbook 2013.
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Blockchain and the scalability challenge: solving the blockchain trilemma
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BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF application: a rocky way towards approval
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Blockchain and Web3.0: A great Marriage
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Swift blockchain interoperability experimentation
31-07-2023 | Early June SWIFT, the largest interbank messaging system in the world, announced it would conduct experiments in collaboration with a number of financial institutions to test for blockchain interoperability.
The digital euro project: we are not there yet!
13-06-2023 | In this blog I will go into the various issues described in the reports including the essential requirements, design and distribution options, use cases and look forward into the agenda for 2023 and further.
The EU Regulatory Sandbox for Blockchain: a win-win situation
15-05-2023 | On 15 February the European Commission announced the launch of the pan-European Blockchain Regulatory Sandbox for innovative use cases involving Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT). The sandbox that was initially planned to become operational in 2021/22, now started on 14 April 2023.