BIS Builds Innovation Hub Management

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has announced two senior appointments to the BIS Innovation Hub, additions the BIS says reflects the growth of the Innovation Hub globally.

In its first five years the BIS Innovation Hub has expanded its network to seven centres across the globe, fostering collaboration among public and private sector experts to support central banks and improve the functioning of the financial system. Against this background,  Karmela Holtgreve has been named deputy head and head of operations and Miguel Díaz named deputy head and head of strategy.

Holtgreve is currently director general, strategy and innovation at the Deutsche Bundesbank. In this role, she is responsible for the overall transformation of the Bundesbank and is directly responsible for three main departments: innovation, transformation, and portfolio and strategy

Díaz is currently the head of the recently-opened BIS Innovation Hub’s Toronto centre. In his current role, he is responsible for leading financial innovation projects and developing new technology to improve payments systems and financial market infrastructure. He was previously payment systems and market infrastructures general director at the Banco de Mexico.

Ross Leckow, who has been sole deputy head of the Innovation Hub since 2019, will leave the BIS at the end of August, it says.