Marc Hollanders is Special Adviser on Financial Infrastructure at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. He contributes to the BIS work in the financial stability and markets areas. He also works for the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) which is based at the BIS. Currently he is co-chairing the CPMI-World Bank task force on Payments aspects of financial inclusion which released its consultative report in September 2015. Previously Marc was Head of the Secretariat of the CPMI. He was co-chair of the task force which prepared the General principles for international remittance services which were published in 2007.