Aka the Bankers’ Plumber. Olaf has been in Financial Services for over 35 years. Liquidity has been a central theme in Olaf’s work over the last 25 years. Recently, Olaf worked with what is now Fnality International in the early stages of their work to create a means of on-chain payment, a synthetic CBDC. Olaf has led various projects related to CLS and FX settlement. Most recently, with Prof. Alistair Milne, Olaf co-authored a paper for the SWIFT Institute: Payment “Tokens”: a route to optimising liquidity management?

Olaf has taught on several subjects including Intraday Liquidty Risk Management and Investment Banking Operations. He is also the author of a book on operations: “The Bankers’ Plumber’s Handbook“