About me
Jochen Metzger
Market Infrastructure
Advisor
I am a Frankfurt‑based Senior Consultant and Independent Non-Executive Director specializing in central banking, financial market infrastructures, and digital transformation. With decades of experience at the core of Europe’s financial system, I provide my clients with high‑level strategic insight into the institutions, regulatory frameworks and operational processes that define today’s market infrastructure landscape.
My advisory services are tailored for organizations seeking to engage with the ECB and Eurosystem bodies, and market infrastructure operators across Europe.
Photo (C) Uwe Grabst
Expertise
at the Core of
the Eurosystem
Leadership
in Digitalization
and DLT
I am a former Senior Official of Deutsche Bundesbank, where I oversaw all market infrastructure and banking operations, including the Eurosystem’s TARGET services (TARGET2, T2S, TIPS).
I represented Deutsche Bundesbank in leading European and international committees, such as:
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The ECB Market Infrastructure Board (MIB)
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The G20 Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) at the BIS in Basel
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The cooperative oversight of CLS at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
I am also widely recognized in Frankfurt for my instrumental role in establishing RMB clearing, strengthening Germany's position as a global financial hub.
Following my central banking career, I transitioned to senior leadership roles in the private sector, including:
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Global Head of Markets, NowCM Group Services (Luxembourg)
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CEO, NowCM France, operating a multilateral trading facility (MTF) for commercial paper in Paris
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Non‑Executive Board Member, Axiology (LT), a Vilnius‑based DLT trading and settlement system.
My work focuses on digitalisation, distributed ledger technology (DLT) and the modernisation of market processes from issuance to post‑trade. At Deutsche Bundesbank, I initiated and led the pioneering Blockbaster blockchain settlement project series in collaboration with Deutsche Boerse.