Udo Milkau

Dr. Udo Milkau is head of strategy and market development controlling of Operations & Services, the transaction banking unit of DZ BANK, central bank of the co-oprerative banking sector in Germany.

The primary focus of his responsiblity is the 'quantitative strategy development' of DZ BANK's transaction banking including payment services, card services, securities transaction services and derivative processing - always from a P/L perspective.

After his academic education in phycics he worked as a research scientist in large collaborations and performed experiments at different European research centers incl. CERN, CEA de Saclay, and GSI. Afterwards he joint a mechatronic manufacturer as head of a task force for 'project bail out' and was responsible for automotive clients in East Asia and Europe.

He hold different management positions in consulting firms for more than a decade. He is member of the European Association of Co-operative Banks (EACB) Payment Services Working Group and member of the European Central Bank (ECB) Operation Managers Contact Group.

Udo Milkau talked at international conferences and authored papers on payments strategy, operations, transaction banking, and lectured at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main with cources in transaction banking.