Andre Casterman

Founder and Managing Director, Casterman Advisory

André Casterman is the founder and Managing Director of Casterman Advisory.

In addition, he chairs the Fintech Committee at the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA), which focuses on helping banks automate trade finance to establish it as an investable asset class through use of data analytics and artificial intelligence.

He is chief marketing officer at INTIX, a data management fintech, and a board member of trade-focused fintechs.

Prior to this role, he spent more than 20 years with SWIFT leading various technology innovations in inter-bank payments, corporate treasury, and trade finance.

During that time, he established an institutional partnership between SWIFT and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and created the first digital trade settlement instrument.

Languages: English, Dutch, French

Maximising bank-fintech collaboration opportunities in trade finance

The secret sauce: Maximising bank-fintech collaboration opportunities in trade finance

In this article, ITFA’s Andre Casterman reveals the secret ingredients of fintech success

Andre CastermanArticles, Blockchain, DLT Trade, E-Commerce, Electronic data products, Featured, Fintech, Issue 8, Stock Finance, SWIFT, Technology, Telecommunications and Media, Trade Finance, Trade Finance Software, Tradetech, Uncategorized
Andre acsterman the f word is here to stay

VIDEO: The F Word – ITFA’s Andre Casterman on helping banks and fintechs work together

Banks and fintechs have not always been the closest playmates, but ITFA’s Andre Casterman is on a mission to help them work together.

Andre CastermanFintech, ITFA, Legal, SWIFT, Technology, Trade Finance, Tradetech, Videos on Trade Finance Talks TV
TFT TV Fintech Bank Collaboration Finastra

VIDEO: Rethinking the customer journey for trade finance – fintech and bank collaboration

How do fintechs work with banks, and how can we rethink the customer journey for trade finance? TFG spoke to industry experts, in partnership with Finastra.

Andre CastermanArticles, Blockchain, Featured, Finastra, Fintech, Freight Forwarding, Interviews, ITFA, Sponsored, Talking Heads, Trade Finance, Trade Finance Talks, Treasury Management, Videos on Trade Finance Talks TV
Tradeteq TFD

The TFD Initiative – The End of Balance Sheet Lending?

Fourteen leading global financial institutions have launched the Trade Finance Distribution (TFD) initiative to use technology and standardisation for the wider distribution of trade finance assets.

Andre CastermanArticles, ITFA, Letters of Credit, Technology, Tradetech
ITFA Trade Finance Digitisation

ITFA, on the global state of trade finance digitisation

Trade finance has been a very slowly moving space when it comes to embracing digital innovations. However, the coin is now flipping: new data sharing technologies and ambitious plans from major trade originators provide much hope for a new trade finance landscape to emerge in the foreseeable future. Will the new trade consortia succeed to scale, and by when?

Andre CastermanArticles, Consortia, Invoice Finance, ITFA, Technology, Trade Finance Software, Tradetech
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