Joining the Zanders team in January 2021, Mark is recognised as an SME in the payments, shared service centre, emerging technologies, and banking integration space. He gained his deep understanding of cash management through his 34 years’ experience with Citibank and HSBC enjoying global roles in both Europe and Asia. Working within a sales, product, project, and consultancy environment provided invaluable insights into the corporate environment and market trends. At a payments industry level, Mark represents Zanders Group in supporting the secretariate for the TCMAG (Tokenised Cash Management Advisory Group). At an industry level, Mark is also a founding member of the original CSTP Bank Group and its evolution into the CGI-MP industry group, remaining a proactive participant in the payments working group. He was also part of the team that designed the XML V03 payment messages that were launched in 2009. Finally, Mark is also a UK elected representative of the ISO TC68 Payment SEG (Expert Group) and was previously Chair of the ISO TC68 SC2 sub-group (2010-2014) covering security.

Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Zanders is an independent global consultancy specializing in treasury management, financial risk management, and treasury technology. With a team of 450+ across offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Sweden, UAE, the United States, Japan, and Singapore, Zanders advises corporates, financial institutions, and public sector organizations across more than 40 countries. Our core service areas span treasury strategy and organization, technology selection and implementation, artificial intelligence applications, corporate finance, and financial and non-financial risk management, including risk modelling, regulatory compliance, and quantitative model validation. Through proprietary software solutions, Zanders also provides technology for areas like transfer pricing and credit risk.

For over 30 years, Zanders has been helping global organizations stay in control and turn that control into performance