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Alan Gerard – Cash Management Business Process Specialist

Alan is Managing Director of “AG1800 Consultants” based in the UK.

Alan has experience in Bank Operational environment. This includes Cheque and Cash processing. (With HSBC for over 30 years.)
Alan has experience in the review and re-Engineering of Process Automation.
Adviser to Central & Commercial Banks in Cash and Process management
The Design and Project Management of new cash centers

Alan Gerard has over 30 years experience in Retail Banking in the U.K and achieved a senior management position with HSBC. During his time with this bank he gained experience in Branch and Regional banking with specific responsibility for operational areas.
Alan was part of a team that brought high speed automation to cheque processing in the U.K. Following this, he was asked to review and re-structure the HSBC UK cash operation. Resulting from this, cash centers were consolidated and new Hardware and Software introduced to automate a process that had been primarily a manual operation.
Alan joined Currency Systems International (CSI) in 1994 and advised them on processing solutions for the banking industry. This significant development resulted in high productivity cash processing solutions being introduced worldwide.
Alan invented Automated Commercial Deposit Processing (ACDP).
Alan was appointed as Director of Marketing for CSI and continued to work in promoting automated solutions to the Cash Industry.
Alan played a significant role in the recent study commissioned by APACS (in the UK) to report of note quality in the Commercial sector, a review of the Bank of England’s specification for ‘Soiled/Unfit notes and the existing submission of unfit notes to the Central Bank. Many of the recommendations have been adopted.