About the Keynote Speakers
Kathleen Tyson
Kathleen Tyson started her career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an Attorney and co-founder of the Settlement Systems Studies Group. She became Assistant Director for International Securities Markets at the UK Securities and Investments Board, supervising Euroclear, Clearstream, Swift and other global infrastructures. She joined Clearstream where she modernised Luxembourg securities laws, co-invented TriParty Repo and Optimised OTC Derivatives Margin, and got US Treasuries into the Luxembourg depository. As an independent consultant she designed CLS Bank foreign exchange settlement operations, helped found NASDAQ Dubai, innovated Swift’s Market Infrastructure Resiliency Service, and with Intellect modernised 12 central banks onto fully Cloud-native, real-time, integrated modular platforms for all central bank operations. In 2023 she published Multicurrency Mercantilism: The New International Monetary Order as a guide to the rapid changes in currency optionality now evident. She plans to be a principal building the new capital markets infrastructure needed to secure stability and risk management for the Multipolar world.
Ulrich Bindseil is honorary professor at TU Berlin. Until June 2025 he was Director General Market Infrastructure and Payments at the European Central Bank (ECB), a post he has held since November 2019. Previously, he was Director General Market Operations (from May 2012 to October 2019) and head of the Risk Management Division (between 2005 and 2008). He first entered central banking in 1994, when he joined the Economics Department of the Deutsche Bundesbank, having studied economics. His publications include, among others, Monetary Policy Operations and the Financial System, OUP, 2014; Central Banking before 1800 – A Rehabilitation, OUP, 2019; Introduction to Central Banking (with A. Fotia, Springer, 2021), Introduction to Payments and Market Infrastructures (with G. Pantelopoulos, Springer, 2023).