Bio

I am the Founder and Managing Director of The Banking Scene, an informal network organisation for bankers and passionate about building communities and conceptualizing ideas, enabling sustainable business models. In response to the pandemic, I set up The Banking Scene Afterwork, a weekly virtual round table where we bring together like-minded people to discuss everything related to banking and payments. Each week we invite a new special guest to talk about the future of banking and how banking contributes to a better world for human and society (https://thebankingscene.com/afterwork). This journey was my personal Master Class in Banking, which teached me more about this fascinating industry in 12 months than what I learned the 12 years before. Prior to my current position, I was Payments and Management Consultant at Clear2Pay (now FIS), Business Controller at Colruyt and Senior Product Manager Daily Banking at bpost bank. In 2009, I created a LinkedIn community “Innovation In Payments” which today has more than 32,000 active global members. ''This unique mix of multi-year experiences in Finance, Strategy and Marketing within Financial Services and Retail has given Rik a holistic view of today’s challenging financial services market. At the same time, he has this hands-on approach that allows to tackle critical challenges and put dilemmas into the right context.'' Key domains of expertise: payments, retail banking, Open Banking and PSD2, platform business models, financial reporting. Available for speaking engagements, workshops and advisory services on the future of banking, payments, financial wellbeing and the emotional relationship people have with money.