Banu Apers is a Senior Market Director in the Securities marketing team at SWIFT with a specialisation in collateral management and securities financing.  In this role, Banu is responsible for developing and launching SWIFT’s global messaging solutions for collateral management and securities financing. 

Banu joined SWIFT in 2007 as a Senior Securities Standards Specialist, later joining the marketing team as a manager for Securities standards. Prior to joining SWIFT, Banu worked at Algorithmics / Algo Collateral where she was responsible for business development and pre-sales in EMEA. Her professional experience also includes work at KBC Bank NV and Barclays Capital London where she held various positions supporting both collateral management and securities lending activities.

Banu holds a MBA from UniversiteitAntwerpen UFSIA (Antwerpen) and Fordham University (New York), BA in Economics at the Bogazici University (BU) (Istanbul)