Dominik Smoniewski is currently Head of the Surveillance of Financial Market Infrastructures, Payment Services and Cyber Risks Department at the National Bank of Belgium.

The Department is responsible for the supervision and oversight of FMIs, critical payment service providers and cyber risks for all the entities supervised by the National Bank. This includes major internationally active institutions, such as SWIFT, Euroclear, MasterCard Europe, Worldline, Wise Europe as well as the domestic payment infrastructure and local payment services start-ups.

He has extensive experience in prudential supervision in various sectors (banking, insurance and payments) as well as in different functions.

Janis Rosewick has been working in the oversight / prudential supervision of financial market infrastructures for 5 years. She started at the European Central Bank, where she focussed on the oversight of Central Securities Depositories. In 2019, she joined the National Bank of Belgium, focussing since then mainly on governance-related topics, including a.o. group-level internal organisation and corporate events such as changes in the shareholder base of regulated entities. Janis Rosewick holds a bachelor in European law and a master in Corporate and Commercial law from the University of Maastricht.

Axel Van Genechten has been working at the National Bank of Belgium since 2020, after several roles within the commercial banking sector. He is specialized in topics such as crypto-currency, central bank digital currencies, payment systems, and related issues. Axel represents the Bank in various working groups in collaboration with the Eurosystem as well as the Bank for International Settlements, and regularly speaks at conferences or in panel discussions. He has a Master’s degree in Law, along with a postgraduate degree in Corporate Finance.

Yvanna Vieira de Melo has been working for 6 years in the IT supervision team within the Surveillance of financial market infrastructures, payment services and cyber risks department at the National Bank of Belgium (NBB). As part of that team, she combines on-site inspection, off-site supervision and contribution to the evolution of the European and Belgian regulatory frameworks on IT/cyber-related matters. Previously, Yvanna worked for 3 years as an IT security analyst in the NBB’s IT department. Before joining the NBB, she spent over 7 years in application development as an analyst and then team lead for an IT service provider in the healthcare sector.