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.
Microsoft Coco Framework: blockchain game changer?
|18-9-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | treasuryXL Microsoft recently announced the introduction of the Coco (or Confidential Consortium) Framework. A ‘first of its kind innovation’ as they named it, designed
How can treasurers use cryptocurrencies?
| 7-9-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | Recently I read a blog from Victoria Beckett published in GTNews, titled “How can treasurers use cryptocurrencies”. Nowadays there are more than thousand different cr
Industries are ready for blockchain take off
| 16-8-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | An interesting study was released recently by Juniper Research. Given its findings this survey needs some more widely spread recognition and that’s the reason for this
SWIFT Blockchain POC: Enhanced cross-border payments
| 8-8-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | Early July SWIFT announced that 22 global banks recently joined its Blockchain proof of concept (PoC) initiative introduced in January this year in collaboration with si
The Digital Trade Chain: the blockchain train is rolling
| 28-7-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | Trade finance is increasingly becoming the number one use case for blockchain with the greatest potential to benefit from this technology. In previously blocks I alread
Stock exchanges and blockchain: open positions
| 18-7-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | Just like banks, a growing number of exchanges worldwide have already taken a serious look at the way they can leverage blockchain technology. This in order to ‘get rid