Holger Neuhaus is Head of the European Central Bank's (ECB's) Market Innovation and Integration Division in the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments. His Division develops the ECB/Eurosystem’s approach in relation to innovation and integration in the field of payments and post-trade services. In this context he coordinates the Eurosystem internal work and chairs a market contact group on settling wholesale financial transactions in central bank money in the presence of new technologies like DLT.

Until November 2019 he headed the Money Market and Liquidity Division which provides market analysis of euro area money markets and ensures the execution of monetary policy through the Eurosystem’s open market operations and liquidity management. It also had a lead role in developing and transitioning to a new reference interest rate for the money market. He has also worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Deutsche Bundesbank and in the private sector (capital markets).