ECB appoints Ulrich Bindseil as director general
The executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB) has appointed Ulrich Bindseil as director general of market infrastructure and payments, effective November this year.
In his new role, he will replace Marc Bayle who is leaving ECB to take up a position in the private sector.
Currently, Bindseil serves as director general market operations, a post he has held since May 2012.
He also served as deputy director general of the same directorate general from September 2009 and prior to that headed the ECB’s risk management division.
Bindseil started working in the field of central banking in 1994 in the economics department of the Deutsche Bundesbank.
