About André Casterman

André Casterman, Strategy and business development in transaction banking and decentralised finance (DeFi). Specialised in designing and commercialising advanced payments, trade finance and capital markets innovations through institutional & commercial partnerships with fintech companies. Ecosystem-level thinker and partnership developer. Helping institutional investors benefit from two alternative asset classes: trade finance and digital assets. Seed investor in multiple technology companies. Working with various regulators in Europe/UK/GCC. André Casterman, Experience developed over 30+ years in: - Crypto currency market analysis and portfolio management - Capital Markets investments in the "global trade and receivables" asset class - Technology innovations in end-to-end trade finance - Multi-bank treasury management platforms for corporates - Data management in transaction banking and financial messaging - Inter-bank messaging in payments and trade finance - Partnerships between incumbent institutions and fintechs at global level Fintech advisory in portfolio companies (past and current): - Tradeteq - filling the SME trade distribution gap - Vinter - feeding crypto ETFs with regulated indices - Enigio and Traydstream - digitising and automating trade origination - Stabiliti - embedded carbon offsetting with end-to-end tracing - Treasury Delta - smart corporate treasury RFP Other advisory (past and current): - Vayana TradeXchange - the cross-border trade financing platform for Indian SMEs - Mitigram - the most interoperable trade platform for multi-banked corporates - XinFin - layer 1 EVM blockchain and digital asset technologies for payments - Euroclear - researching trade as alternative investment class for capital markets - Intix - data management technologies André Casterman, Institutional experience: - ITFA International Trade and Forfaiting Association (since 2017) - Paris Europlace (since 2022) - WTO World Trade Organisation Trade Finance Expert Group (since 2018) - International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission (since 2010) - ICC UK (since 2019) André Casterman, Staff / Management experience: - 7 years at SWIFT in software development (1991-1997) - 17 years at SWIFT in new market / product development (1998 - 2015) André Casterman, Freelance experience: - 8 years as independent fintech consultant (2016-now) - 7 years in software development and marketing start-ups (1983-1990)