Michael Knorr

Michael is providing industry advisory, thought leadership and customer segment specific solutions for Global Treasury Management customers. He is focused on emerging technologies, future strategic trends in payments and emerging risks.

Michael is the co-chair of the Global Payments Market Practice Group, co-chair of the CPMI-PMPG Joint Task Force (JTF) on ISO 20022 Harmonisation and a member of the CPMI - cross-border payments interoperability and extension (PIE) taskforce and other industry groups such as SWIFT US Cash and Trade Sub-Committee, Instant Payments Plus, X9 and the High Value Payments Plus working group.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo & Co. Michael was managing Enterprise Services for Citibank Treasury & Trade Solutions (TTS) and functioned as the data governance officer for TTS. Michael represented Citibank on the CHIPS Business Committee and the Fedwire Wholesale Payments Committee.

Various assignments for Citibank in Chicago, London and New York allowed him to lead new market initiatives such as EMU, CLS and TARGET as well as create new products in Payroll Cards, Commercial Cards, FX Settlements and Global Currency Clearing.

Michael holds an MBA in Finance and Information Services from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He earned his undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Duisburg, Germany.