Matthew Van Niekerk

In 2016 and after several years of self-study and experimentation with blockchain technologies, Matthew set up his own company, SettleMint, offering a set of modular middleware solutions that abstract away the complexity of the blockchain journey for clients. Prior to this, Matthew made Belgium his home in 2006, where he worked at KBC first as an internal management and operations consultant, later as COO for the Belgian Consumer Finance business and finally as the Head of Platform Innovation at KBC Securities Bolero where he was responsible for the technical side of the online retail brokerage platform ‘Bolero’ and the equity crowdfunding platform ‘Bolero Crowdfunding’. Bolero Crowdfunding was the first bank/broker in Europe to launch a publicly available blockchain application in Europe. A Canadian by origin and an Economist (Western) and MBA (Vlerick) by education, Matthew spent the first 7 years of his international career in Tokyo, where he worked in the FX business and launched several online retailing companies.