Discussing the complexities of liquidity and settlement in the banking industry with Olaf Ransome, also known as The Bankers’ Plumber.
The conversation centers around topics such as settlement coins, CBDCs, and the challenges associated with replacing infrastructure at the settlement layer. Enjoy insights into the current state of the banking industry and the potential future of settlement processes.
Untangling the Complexity of Liquidity & Settlement in the Banking System, Olaf Ransome
Olaf Ransome https://www.linkedin.com/in/bankerspl… Aka the Bankers’ Plumber. Olaf has been in Financial Services for over 35 years. In 2023, his mandates include being an advisor to various start-ups in FinTech banking, a new cross-border wholesale payment systems a Web 3 payments start-up, as well as guiding a company looking to develop software to support Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and an established South African bank take its first steps in new digital assets.
Olaf worked with what is now Fnality International in the early stages of their work to create a means of on-chain payment, a synthetic CBDC. Olaf also worked with SDX, SIX Digital Exchange; work on FMI structure, CBDC and Crypto. Olaf has had permanent roles at Salomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, in London, Zurich and New York.
In his consulting work, Olaf has worked for Nomura, State Street, IBM, Luxoft, First Rand, Sberbank, Julius Baer, Nordea, and Fnality. Olaf has taught on several subjects including Intraday Liquidity Risk Management and Investment Banking Operations. He is also the author of a book on operations: “The Bankers’ Plumber’s Handbook”
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