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The payments market and Eurogiro have
changed dramatically since Deutsche
Postbank participated in the founding of
Eurogiro. What do you regard as the greatest
achievements of Eurogiro over time and
what should Eurogiro focus on to meet the
challenges of tomorrow?
There have been many important develop-
ments and achievements over the past years.
The change-over from paper-based money
order exchange in the postal world to electro-
nic and automated payment exchange
between Postal and Post-financial institu-
tions around the globe – Eurogiro’s founding
purpose – is certainly one of the greatest
achievements.
More recently the bridging function between
the banking and postal world has been
another important achievement of Eurogiro,
interconnecting a wide diversity of different
institutions, combined with the provision
of unique global reach for international
payments.
Here also lies one of the challenges for tomor-
row – to even further activate this unique
global reach, interconnecting postal organisa-
tions and banks from practically all continents,
and to stimulate the exchange of business
and payments between the participants. In
this context I would like to emphasise the IT
achievements that have been achieved over
previous years. The provision of “turn key
solutions” for quick and reliable IT imple-
mentation, combined with centralised testing
facilities, has been a key development which
has considerably reduced the time to market
for new customers.
In addition, the software life cycle manage-
ment, with regular fixed release schedules,
significantly contributes to providing harmon-
Interview with Vice-chairman of Eurogiro Board -
Mario Daberkow
Mr Daberkow is one of the most senior members of the Eurogiro Board. Mr Daberkow brings
outstanding expertise on IT & transaction processing to the Board and represents one of
Europe’s most significant payment handlers. In this interview he expresses his view on the
aspirations and challenges of Eurogiro
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Mario Daberkow, Chief Operating Officer,
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Vice-chairman of the Eurogiro Board
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