Ulrich Bindseil

TU Berlin

Ulrich Bindseil was in charge of the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments of the European Central Bank (ECB) between 2019 and 2025. He joined central banking in 1994 and Director General Market Operations of the ECB between 2013 and 2019 and previously Head of Risk Management. He has published on various applied central banking topics, but also on obscure ones such as “Central Banking before 1800” (OUP, 2019). He is currently honorary Professor at TU Berlin.

Articles by Ulrich Bindseil

Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures

Original research

Toward immediacy and continuity in money and finance?

This paper investigates the relationship between developments in information and communication technology and changes in the time structure of money and finance.

25 Jun 2025

Original research

Digital money and finance: a critical review of terminology

The authors put forward an etymology of key concepts and review key terminology and definitions within the sphere of decentralized finance to facilitate discussions about their merits and use cases/

06 May 2025