Bio

During his career, Diederik has lead and worked on several international projects, mainly with focus on cashless payments, across the whole payments value chain, from merchant acquisition through to issuing banks and within card switching and card processing organizations. His expertise also focuses on business strategy, proposition and business process issues, yet he brings systems expertise and has undertaken for example: international payments strategy, partner selection processes for acquirers, market entry studies for issuers and processors, BIN sponsorship agreements, clearing package selection, cross border top up on prepaid phones (using credit cards); definition of a payments and clearing interface for an Internet Bank; merchant acquirer selection and negotiation, acquirer package selection, design and development of end to end processes, cross border ATM projects. He also brings in-depth knowledge of card scheme rules and regulations, and security. He has worked for or with very many banks, retailers, telephone operators, card processors, card schemes, acquirers and issuers, such as The Royal Bank of Scotland, WorldPay, ABN AMRO, MasterCard, Capgemini, ING, Equens, International Card Services, TSYS, Eufiserv, Vodafone, SafetyPay and Monnet. Diederik was one of the key authors of the first three editions of the World Payments Report. Specialties: Credit card, debit card, card issuing, merchant acquiring, card processing, card switching, card scheme rules and regulations and regulatory impact. Also retail payments, cross-border payments, Single Euro Payments Area SEPA.