BPO The Bank Payment Obligation

BUSINESS CREDIT RADIO is honored to welcome Mr. Andre Casterman as our featured guest speaker. André  heads up SWIFT’s strategy and business development in the Corporate and Trade markets. His responsibilities cover payments and cash management, treasury, trade and supply chain finance. André is also a Member of the Executive Committee of the Banking Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) where he co-chairs the Bank Payment Obligation project.André was previously Director of SWIFT France and SWIFT's global relationship with BNP Paribas, SWIFT’s fourth largest customer. From 2001 to 2005, André led SWIFT’s product and business development activities in low-value payments and rolled out SWIFTNet FileAct in that market. Since then, SWIFTNet FileAct has widely adopted by banks to exchange payment and cash management files. From 1997 to 2001, André contributed to the design and commercialisation of SWIFT’s new IP-based messaging portfolio (SWIFTNet), which has now become the foundation of all SWIFT activities.André joined SWIFT in 1991 in Information Systems, where he contributed to numerous IT projects, including the roll out of SAP in support of SWIFT’s order-to-cash processes. André has a Masters in Management and a Masters in Computer Science from “Vrije Universiteit Brussel”, and a degree in Applied Economics from “ICHEC Brussels”.

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