Meral has 21+ years of Corporate and Commercial Banking and 2+ years of Fintech experience.

• Former Turkey Consultant and Client Executive at Marco Polo Network (previously known as TradeIX), a start-up trade finance platform provider and network operator which offers Working Capital, Trade Finance and Payments solutions leveraging the distributed ledger technology of Corda by R3.

• Meral has Trade Finance Fintech experience while at Isbank and Marco Polo Network. She has acquired a profound expertise for Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance digitalization using new technologies, new business models and new legal frameworks.

• Deep banking experience on management of cross-border trade finance products, commercial loans products, supply chain finance solutions and cash management of corporates.

• Meral has expertise on project management in digital transformations of trade finance products and DLT based trade finance implementations. Main product management projects on digitalization trade finance are adoption of Bank Payment Obligation, RPI applications and Marco Polo Network’s Blockchain (R3 Corda) using Payment Commitment.

• Having  Corda “Business Professional License”.

• Meral is lecturer of “Turkish Banking Association” on “Trade Finance and Blockchain” and “Digitalization and URDTT”.

• She is driver behind the Blockchain Turkey’s working groups of Logistic and Banking sector to create eco-system for trade finance using Blockchain.

Meral is very well-known in the Banking,  Finance and Cross-border Trade Industry and has a wide network contacts especially in Turkey.