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David King

David King CTO at Flywire

How quantum computing impacts the future of payments security

At our recent Flywire Fusion event, we held a breakout session on Cybersecurity in Higher Education. The original focus of the session was around how to address cybersecurity threats facing higher ed, including data breaches and the growing phishing attacks on both students and institutions to trick them into changing banking details that could l...

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Teo Blidarus

Teo Blidarus CEO and Co-Founder at FintechOS

Banks Can’t Treat Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits as “Just Another Payment Method”

Stablecoins are moving fast, banks aren’t. As industry, business and consumer understanding deepens, token-based rails are starting to challenge mainstream infrastructure. The pressure to react and integrate is real. Put simply: token-based money moves on new rails built outside the current banking infrastructure. They transfer value quickly and sp...

/payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services

Milko Filipov

Milko Filipov Senior Manager at valantic

The Emergence of Agentic Commerce: How AI Agents Are Transforming E-Commerce

In my previous article, I discussed how the payments ecosystem—characterized by its high volumes, real-time processing, and rich contextual data—is naturally suited for AI. These qualities make it possible to build smarter, faster, and more reliable processes. Building on that foundation, we’re now witnessing a new era in e-commerce, defined by th...

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Sergiy Fitsak

Sergiy Fitsak Managing Director, Fintech Expert at Softjourn

Why the Cheapest Software Estimate Often Costs Fintech Companies the Most

Last quarter, a fintech company approached us to rescue a failing project. They'd hired a vendor to build an expense management platform with payment integrations in two months — an aggressive timeline that should have raised red flags. Ten months later, they had nothing in production, a budget that had tripled, and a vendor relationship that had ...

/payments /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Maxim Neshcheret

Maxim Neshcheret Regional Manager at CMA Small Systems AB

Beyond Borders: The Shift Toward Smarter, Faster Payments

For decades cross-border payments have been slow, expensive, and complicated relying heavily on a patchwork of correspondent banking relationships and a few dominant currencies, especially the U.S. dollar. But now that is starting to change. Driven by shifting geopolitical dynamics, regulatory alignment, and the rise of shared standards like ISO 20...

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Dr Ritesh Jain

Dr Ritesh Jain Advisor at WorldBank

The Great Convergence: How Money Learns to Move Like Information

For decades, the plumbing of global finance has relied on a patchwork of protocols, proprietary formats, and manual reconciliation. Each payment, no matter how digital it appeared, was in fact a chain of messages stitched together across time zones and intermediaries. Today, that world stands at a threshold. A new data standard—ISO 20022—is becomi...

/payments /predictions Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Carlos Kazuo Missao

Carlos Kazuo Missao Global Head of Innovation Solutions at GFT

Not Sure How To Approach Stablecoins? Three Ways Companies Are Building Them Today.

When the GENIUS Act passed in the U.S. earlier this year, financial institutions for the first time had an actual framework – aligned with global standards like Europe’s MiCA – for stablecoin usage across the country. With the floodgates now open for stablecoin adoption, the industry went down a rabbit hole, discussing the benefits and drawbacks o...

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Shikko Nijland

Shikko Nijland CEO at INNOPAY Oliver Wyman

Agentic Commerce: Building the Trust Framework for Machine-Initiated Payments

AI agents are starting to transact on behalf of humans. Whether mainstream adoption arrives in three or five years is secondary. What matters is readiness—defining digital mandates, verifying agent identity, and allocating liability before scale arrives. Europe can lead if it builds a trusted framework for agent-initiated payments now. From human...

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Fergus McKie

Fergus McKie Marketing at Planixs

Real-time payments in Europe, real-time pressure on treasury: Time to rethink liquidity?

The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) has been enhanced to enable instant payments across Europe: 24 hours a day, every day. Jointly led by the European Payments Council (EPC), the European Central Bank (ECB), and the European Union (EU), this mandate is writing a significant chapter in banking history by opening instant payments up across all coun...

/payments /wholesale Treasury Management

Laurent Descout

Laurent Descout CEO at NEO Capital Markets

Payments are shaping the next era of fintech

Payments have become the backbone of fintech. Once considered an unglamorous back-office function, they are now at the forefront of innovation and the breakout leader of the fintech sector. In 2022, PayTechs were estimated to make up 25% of fintechs. Fast forward to 2024, and payments equate to 55%, or $126 billion, of the $378 billion in global f...

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