For the last 5 years Eelko van Leeuwen has been the CIO of ABN Amro Clearing Bank, which clears and finances over 16 million trades per day and covers 90 of the world’s leading exchanges. It guarantees that agreements between all sides of
transactions in financial markets are honoured.
Eeelko has led two impressive, massive transformation programs – integrating and unifying backoffice systems for all 4 regions of the Bank’s trading systems, and developing an ingenious Banking as a Service platform – a blockchain-based service that backs fintechs with a banking license that they otherwise wouldn’t have.
When the whole industry was either competing with or buying out fintechs, ABN Amro decided to partner with them to make ABN indispensable.
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