Jochen has over 30 years of experience in financial markets infrastructure, including payments, clearing and settlement and banking operations. He has held several senior positions at the Bundesbank, offering a comprehensive perspective that spans the National, European, and Global domains. From 2006 to 2021, he held the position of Director General Payments and Settlement Systems at the Deutsche Bundesbank having supervised and coordinated the development and operation of the Eurosystem’s TARGET-services, together with his peers from the ECB and the central banks of France, Italy and Spain. Since December 2021 Jochen has been serving as the President of the Bundesbank’s Regional Office in North Rhine-Westphalia. 

At the Eurosystem level, Jochen was a member of the ECB’s Market Infrastructure Board and the earlier T2S-Steering Board. He also represented the Bundesbank on the G20-Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructure (CPMI) and was Responsible Senior Officer for cooperative oversight of CLS. In Frankfurt, Jochen is well known for his contributions to RMB Clearing and for driving forward the innovative Blockbaster project series to test blockchain based settlement technology together with Deutsche Boerse Group