Ron Berndsen

De Nederlandsche Bank and University of Tilburg

Professor Dr R.J. (Ron) Berndsen is Head of the Market Infrastructures Policy Department of De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam and attached to the department of Economics at the University of Tilburg as professor of Financial Market Infrastructures and Systemic Risk (endowed chair).

He is a member of the Target2-Securities Board at the European Central Bank and a member of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures at the Bank of International Settlements. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Swift Institute.

He has worked for De Nederlandsche Bank since 1992, including in various management functions in the field of monetary and economic policy. From 2003 to 2015 he was Head of the Oversight Department of De Nederlandsche Bank and in that capacity a member of the Payment and Settlement Systems Committee (ESCB) and cooperative oversight committees for CLS, EuroCCP, Euroclear, LCH.Clearnet and SWIFT.

He was awarded a doctorate with the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Tilburg in 1992 for his thesis entitled ‘Knowledge representation and qualitative reasoning in economic models'.

Articles by Ron Berndsen

Original research

On the recovery tools of a central counterparty

The author argues that assessments should be preferred over variation margin gains haircutting when CCP resilience is tested by cases of default loss being greater than prefunded financial resources.

22 Jan 2024

Original research

Near-real-time monitoring in real-time gross settlement systems: a traffic light approach

This paper develops a method to identify quantitative risks in financial market infrastructures (FMIs) that is inspired by the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures.

27 Jan 2020

Original research

Proof-of-work blockchains and settlement finality: a functional interpretation

In this paper, the authors aim to provide an interpretation of the legal issue of settlement finality in the context of proof-of-work distributed ledger technology, such as the Bitcoin network.

12 Jul 2019

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