Projects

Piet Biemans was involved in a large number of international assignments. These projects were mainly focused on advising postal and (post) bank institutions on market, strategic and tactical business aspects and execution approaches, often based on an extensive feasibility study including detailed business plans.

In more than 20 countries he was contracted by international multilateral institutions (e.g. Worldbank) and private advisory companies (such as advisory units within ING and TPG Netherlands). On theLinks site the web site of most of the advised companies is available to get an impressio of the present status of the advised company.

Overview of the assignments in which Piet Biemans -often in co-operation with members of his network of postal and post bank experts- was involved as senior postal banking and postal financial services advisor during the last fifteen years:

•  Associate consultant for the WSBI Programme “Working with Savings Banks in order to double the number of savings accounts - Grant agreement #51375”;

  South African Post/Postbank  : assignment: from point of view of ‘Intensified and New services for pro-poor mass market approach’ ; Diagnostic review of the current Postbank Operations organization, (primary, secondary and support) business processes and ICT solutions and intended development plans; Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threads analysis (SWOT analysis); Recommended (Short-Term) OPS & IT Actions; Set of Postbank business requirements for medium term vision Postbank 2015; 2010

   

• Presentation 'Postioning Postbanks in a changing retail financial sector;Mobile Money-improving access and creating synergy' at the International Postbank Council of Lafferty Group LTD (Dublin);October 2009

• Workshop and training  for (postal and post bank) members of the International Committee for Postal Financial Services and Business (ICPFSB/ Universal Postal Union) to support CEEC countries in developing Postal Financial Services; 2009/2008

• Management advise of Haypost CJSC Management Board  (Armenia) on improving and modernising postal financial service; 2007/2008

• Feasibility study  for expanding access to financial services through the Kyrgyz Post postal network including a short and medium term activity programme as part of the modernisation program of Kyrgyz Post (within the Worldbank Financial Services Development Program);  2007/2008

• Business Plan for development of Postal Financial services in AzerPost (Azerbaijan) within Worldbank Financial Services Development Program; 2007

• Business plan for creating a Postbank in Armenia for Trust manager Haypost  Armenia; 2006/2007/2008

• Strategic advise for the Chairman of the Board of Latvijas Pasts to develop postal financial services into a Postbank in the context of reform and (institutional) restructuring of Post in Latvia; 2006

• Management Training  for Management Board of Nigeria Post; 2005

• Strategy advise by presenting and discussing  the strategy for a renewed International Committee for Postal Financial Services and Business (ICPFSB/ Universal Postal Union), to support CEEC countries in developing Postal Financial Services/Postal Banking; 2005

• Business plan, implementation support and Management training for the development and  implementation of the Postbank in Lesotho (LPB); 2002, 2004, 2005

• Strategy advise for an Austrian bank, integrated with Postbank Hungary, to develop strategic co-operation with Magyar Post, especially through the post office network; 2004

• Strategy advise for a Commercial Bank in Thailand regarding their intended investment in Thai Post, especially the development a business case for Postal Financial services; 2003

• Business plan for the development of a private (mass) retail bank in Kosovo;  2003

• Strategic advise of a Slovenian Commercial bank to acquire the local Postbank; 2003

• Preparation of the bidding phase and executing a due diligence for a Dutch financial group of the Operations & IT aspects of Postova Banka Slovakia; 2002

• Strategy advise of a Brazilian bank in developing a strategy to bid on a tender to develop and deliver Banco Postal products through Post offices; 2000

• Strategy advise to the Ministry of Communication of Russian Federation, Svyaz bank and Postal Company in defining a strategic plan for developing Postal Banking activities; 2000

• Presentation in Tashkent on Strategic Conference of Postal Financial services in Central East European Countries (15 country delegations present) on the subject "Product development and It support Postal Financial services"; 2000

• Analysis and Design of Giro Target System and implementation approach for (7) Central and Eastern European Countries to be used in developing postal financial services and Postbanks  in the European Union  Phare program; 1999, 2000

• Strategy advise on governmental and company level to upgrade the existing governmental Postbank of Iran on institutional, legal and business level and the migration strategy; 1999

• Presentation in Johannesburg on Strategic Conference of Postal Financial services in the south African Countries (15 country delegations present) on the subject "The development of Postal Financial Services from point of view product development and It support ";1998

• Feasibility study for Correios Brazil regarding Business Processes and IT and cost consequences of improving Postal Financial Services included the possible extension with a Giro System within a possible future Postbank solution; 1998

• Strategy advise for the Board of Directors of the General Postal Authority of the United Arab Emirates in negotiations with a private bank in developing a Giro system and delivery of financial products through postal counters;1996.