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The future of Payments in Europe

With an increase in regulations and growing involvement from multiple players, the world of payments is undergoing a disruption across the region

Sergei Romanov

Sergei Romanov CPO at Profee.com

5 Trends to Drive the Cross-border Remittance Industry in 2023

International money transfers are rapidly developing, and every year brings new challenges to the industry. What are the 2023 cross-border remittance trends? Embedded finance Obviously, analytics and experts have been talking about embedded finance and seamless transfers for quite a while, and in 2023 this trend keeps accelerating. The tendency o...

/payments /predictions

Kim Engman

Kim Engman Senior Director at Tietoevry Banking

Vikings don't use cash

The Nordic countries and past vikings, are virtually cashless societies in 2023. There's no need to bring cash to come visit. The Nordics (i.e., Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Finland) aside for being the happiest group of countries, have intensified their journey towards digital payments. Status and how they got here Even...

/payments /inclusion

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The race is on for instant payments, could the Nordics lead the way?

Innovation in payments has long dominated the fintech industry. However, when it comes to clearing houses and large payment infrastructures, progress has been slow. Facilitating instant payments at scale and across borders, for example, has been on the global agenda for a while, such as the implementation of PSD2 which aimed to increase the use of...

/payments /regulation

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Mandated action on multiple parties is needed for APP fraud prevention

Over the last three months, The House of Lords, European Commission and the Payment System Regulator (PSR) published detailed reports and proposals on how to prevent instant payment fraud. It is not easy and requires multiple partners to work together and consumers and business to do their part to stop these escalating frauds by having robust, man...

/payments /regulation

Güven Aytaş

Güven Aytaş Head of Global Sales at European Merchant Bank

The Digitalisation of International Payments

There is a very good expression: “Money never sleeps”. Definitely, money is on a constant move, so are our lives. Moreover, the Covid-19 pandemic has turned us into digital beings with an intense need for convenience and speed. While individuals can enjoy seamless payment technologies that fit this era, businesses still have some challenges in cat...

/payments /retail

Pierre Dutaret

Pierre Dutaret CEO and Co-Founder at Libeo

The future of work

Digital is completely transforming the way people work across the globe and allowing people to become more interconnected. Machine automation takes away the stresses attached to manual labour and boosts productivity, increasing the value of an employee's output. Equally, automation outsources repetitive, time-consuming tasks, enabling employees to...

/payments /startups

Chris Principe

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

CRYPTO to CBDC

CRYPTO to CBDC - Payments have gone through significant innovation in recent history. Each time innovation has improved the convenience, speed, and security of money. Let’s review these money milestones. Barter to Coins; An early form of payment was to trade goods as payment for needed goods. The difficulties were equal measure of value, physical s...

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Jess Gerrow

Jess Gerrow VP Marketing at Token

Open banking has a branding problem

Open banking has a branding problem, and I’m not talking about logos or websites. I’m talking about branding as a promise, or (as Michael Beirut, partner of design firm Pentagram, puts it) branding as “a world of associations that have accrued over time.” Four years after it was officially “born,” open banking is often associated with data first a...

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Gleb Kozlov

Gleb Kozlov CEO at KoronaPay

How COVID-19 triggered a cascade of changes and shaped the new reality of remittances

Do you remember the COVID-19 pandemic? It has been a real challenge for the remittance industry but also a source of opportunities. After a period of turmoil, 2022 is expected to be the year of recovery and the forces shaping the market are in many ways different from what used to be. Changes in landscape Remittances within KoronaPay’s major mark...

/payments /covid-19

Alex Reddish

Alex Reddish Managing Director at Tribe Payments

Is 2022 the year we see a slowdown in Fintech investment?

As we as a business reflected on the different trends we felt were worth talking about for 2022, the fintech investment scene and current tech stocks felt like something worth expanding on more widely. Before we focus on the current climate let's talk very briefly about the drivers of the dot com bubble: Low interest rates, huge amounts of capital...

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