Saskia Devolder was appointed Head of Europe North in November 2019. She is also responsible for SWIFT gpi and market infrastructures across Europe, Middle East & Africa. She is member of the Global Business Development Group at SWIFT.
Previously, Saskia was Head Western and Central Europe, having already managed the sales organisation for France and Benelux, where she was responsible covering securities and banking sales activities and developing community engagement across the region.
Saskia joined SWIFT in 2006. Prior to joining SWIFT she was VP Global Account Management at MasterCard International and held several sales and marketing positions at Synstar International and Sterling Software.
09/02/2021 / 10:50 - 11:20
With a growing number of countries that are renewing new domestic payment schemes to enable cross-border instant payments, the panel discussion on “Making instant cross-border payments a reality” would shed the light on where we are today in the Nordics. We will discuss the challenges and obstacles of the current infrastructure, how we envision cross-board payments in the future and what is the future role of the central bank in payment infrastructure vs commercial infrastructure.