Rich Wagner

CEO at APS

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Bio Founder and CEO of Advanced Payment Solutions which in 10 years has become a leading digital banking and payments company in the UK. Career History Innovative and entrepreneurial senior executive with 30 years of successful payment experience in U.S. and U.K. financial services. Specific experience in launching and managing high growth financial services businesses internationally

Blogs

Fair and equal access for FinTech

13 Feb 2016

When the banking system – and payments infrastructure in particular – was created, there was no consideration that anyone other than the banks would require access to it. How times have changed. With the UK's history of sophisticated financial services, it is unsurprising that we are now firmly on the global map for FinTech innovation. As the sayin...

Is today a good day to become a bank? Maybe... Maybe Not!

28 Oct 2015

When George Osborne announced that newly established challenger banks would no longer be exempt from the 8% tax that applies to the biggest banks, many of those at the helm of these new businesses will have swallowed – hard. They had expected to be let off, arguing that the levy should only apply to global banks of systemic importance, not the sma...

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