Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
qVDR = Qualified Verifiable Data Registry. It’s the EU’s new, sharper term for a trust list that carries legal weight for EBWs, EUDIWs, and for AI-agent-to-system interactions. Think of it as: “The place where you can check whether an issuer is legally allowed to issue the credential you’re looking at.” A legally governed registry of issuers, sch...
8 mins /ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services
Kristaps Zips UK CEO at payabl.
Cross-border payments are the lifeblood of the global economy. For individuals sending money home to loved ones, they provide a financial lifeline, and for merchants, they are critical for growth and unlocking new markets. The numbers speak for themselves – remittance flows grew from $865 billion in 2023 to $905 billion in 2024. Yet, for all their...
32 mins /payments
Oleksandr Kostenko Product Owner at TMetric
Billing errors in business rarely start with drama, but they often end there. Just look at O2, one of the UK’s largest mobile networks, which overcharged 140,000 customers because a long-standing billing fault went unnoticed for years, ultimately resulting in a £10.5 million fine. Or E.ON Next, the UK arm of one of Europe’s major energy provide
2 hours /payments /startups Business
Monica Eaton Founder & CEO at Chargebacks911 and Fi911
Paying has never been easier. A tap, a glance, a swipe and it’s done. That speed is brilliant for consumers but complex for the systems behind it. Every time we make payments faster, expectations rise for everything else. When a refund or dispute drags, the gap between speed and fairness becomes impossible to ignore. That’s the convenience paradox...
3 hours /security /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Milko Filipov Senior Manager at valantic
AI-driven shopping is becoming one of the most significant shifts in modern e-commerce. As autonomous agents start handling tasks like comparing products, making purchases, and communicating with online stores, it’s becoming clear that today’s platforms—built with human users in mind—aren’t fully equipped for this new reality. To address this gap,...
4 hours /ai /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Kuldeep Shrimali Consulting Partner at Tata Consultancy Services
Abstract Recent market volatility has increased the demand for Defined Outcome ETFs which offer downside protection in exchange for capped upside potential, making them useful for managing uncertainty and complex portfolios. It enables investors to pursue defined objectives such as Income generation, targeted downside protection, and increased g...
4 hours /wealth Capital Markets Technology
Andrew Bonsall COO at AperiData
With the Smart Data Bill now in law, the UK is taking the framework proven through Open Banking and extending it across the wider economy. Introduced in October 2024 and passed in 2025, the Bill gives consumers greater control over their information and sets out how that data can be shared safely between sectors such as finance, energy, and teleco...
5 hours Open Banking
Katherine Chan CEO at Juice
This month at Web Summit, I sat beside Fernando Cabral, Founder of Djassi Africa, to unpack a question that has been following me from meeting rooms to founder calls to every event I attend. Why are confidence, access and trust weakening at the very moment small businesses need support the most? As we spoke on stage, it became clear that this is n...
5 hours /inclusion /predictions Inclusive FinTech
We now are trying to get the soon mandatory (public sector units - in EU to begin with) or de-facto must-have EBWs for enterprises in use much before legislation demands it. The technical part is easy. Some time is needed for ecosystem rule books. But the time consuming part is to change work processes - away from paper a
8 hours /ai /payments Electronic invoicing
Paul Shumsky Founder at @Finpace.tech
As digital financial services expand across Africa, the technology powering them must evolve beyond conventional banking systems. The realities of emerging markets require platforms that are resilient under infrastructural constraints, modular enough to adapt to diverse regulatory environments, and efficient enough to scale in regions where digita...
9 hours
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