Marc is the Business Manager, Payments Standards in the standards department at SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. His main responsibilities are the development of end-to-end payment transaction standards for the financial industry and support to payment market infrastructures. He leads or supports SWIFTStandards XML development initiatives in this domain (bulk payments, cash management and payment initiation standards). He is a member of various industry groups in the European Payments Council, ECBS and chairs SWIFT modelling and Business validation groups. Marc has a master in business and administration and has been spent 7 years in banks. He has been involved in standardisation initiatives in the payments area for more than 10 years. Marc joined SWIFT in 1997.