Advisory for banks
From digital transformation to digital assets — one continuous thread.
Nearly 40 years connecting systems end-to-end inside tier-1 banks — work that extends naturally into digital assets and smart contracts, carrying that same connectivity beyond the enterprise's walls.
Digital transformation
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End-to-end processes
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Digital assets & smart contracts
Career ledger1988 – present
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2023 — PRESENT
Head of Digital & Blockchain Services
BBVA in Switzerland, Zürich
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2018 — 2023
Head of Blockchain Solutions
Avaloq Evolution AG, Zürich
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2016 — 2018
Managing Director
Avaloq Innovation Ltd, Edinburgh
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2010 — 2015
Global Head of Equity & Brokerage IT
UniCredit, Munich
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2003 — 2009
Global Head of Equity Derivatives IT
CACIB, Paris
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1997 — 2003
Global Head of Front Office IT
CACIB, Paris
Track record
Results, not aspirations.
80%+
BBVA digital-asset revenue growth, 2025
€500M
CACIB derivatives platform revenue, up from €200M
400+
Engineers led at peak, €60M budget (CACIB)
50%
Support cost cut, Germany-to-Poland move (UniCredit)
PWM Awards2023–2025
Best Digital Service, Global Finance2025
Cointelegraph Award2023
OneMarket Platform — Best Innovation, Die Zeit3 years running
ISC Intelligence Award2020
Bank & Innovation Award, Paris2018
Co-founder & board member, openVASP2020–2022
Nearly 40 years at the point where capital markets technology meets regulatory reality — building and running trading platforms at CACIB and UniCredit, then carrying that same end-to-end connectivity into the blockchain and digital-asset businesses at Avaloq and BBVA in Switzerland.
That's what makes the advisory practical: strategy tested against a FINMA audit, decisions defended in front of a trading floor, delivery plans built by someone who has carried the P&L.
Outside client work, he sits on the board of openVASP and has represented it on the TRISA board, and previously served on the board of Fintech Scotland. French, based in Zürich, working in English and French.
- Education
- MBA in Innovation & Business Creation — Technical University of Munich (TUM) / UC Berkeley, 2015
- MSc in Computer Science — ESME, Paris, 1988
- Certifications
- Avaloq Certified Practitioner (2016) · Prince2 Practitioner (2009)
- Board & industry roles
- openVASP Association — co-founder & board member · TRISA Board representative · Fintech Scotland — board member
- Technical grounding
- Blockchain architecture, data science, BPMN, Agile (XP & Scrum), Java, C++, SQL, Node.js, React
Latest thinking
Written on the way, not after the fact.
Notes from the blog at meyer.today — on tokenization, payments infrastructure, and where AI and blockchain meet.