Brian Edmondson

Brian is the Industry Principal for trade and working capital finance at Finastra bringing business knowledge and market insight and LOB strategy to the product and sales organization.

Brian has over 45 years experience providing solutions to banks across all business areas ranging from retail to treasury, investment, corporate, commercial and universal banking. Brian has led solutions in in Trade and Working Capital Finance solutions since 1992. He was formerly Executive Vice President at China Systems (Eximbills) based in Asia-Pac where he was responsible for Product Management and Professional Services eventually moving to MD in 2000. Brian then moved to Europe to become the Vertical Sales Lead for Financial Services at IBM.

In 2009 Brian joined Finastra and has been instrumental in growing the trade finance business to a discrete line of business at Finastra. Brain led the Model Bank concept for transaction based banking and the application of the global processing solution for large international banks. Brian has been the lead Solution Architect for global trade and working capital finance projects for tier 1 and leading regional banks.