Roberto Garavaglia

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Innovative Payments & blockchain Strategic Advisor

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19 Nov 2009

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Senior Advisor specialized in helping Organizations innovate and build new business streams in the Innovative Payments and blockchain field. Author of books: TUTTO SU BLOCKCHAIN - May 2018; CONOSCERE LA BLOCKCHAIN - June 2021; TUTTO SU NFT - Feb 2022, TODO SOBRE LOS NFT - Oct 2022, Hoepli Editore.

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The silent revolution of fees, but what fees?

From Canada and the United States to the United Kingdom, a wave of changes in the Interchange Fees for Visa and Mastercard card payments promises to rewrite the rules of the game. But what exactly are these commission costs, and why is it important to understand their pricing model? I explain this in this post. When we talk about economics and fin...

18 December 2023

X: Elon Musk's Financial Revolution

Elon Musk, the visionary entrepreneur known for ambitious ventures such as Tesla and SpaceX, has recently outlined extraordinary plans for X (formerly known as Twitter), vowing to radically transform the way we manage our financial lives. In this blog post, we delve into X's ambitions to become an all-encompassing financial platform, examining the ...

29 October 2023

Brexit and digital payments: what are the impacts for the future

Since the stroke of midnight on 31 January 2020, United Kingdom 'is out', to use the same wording we have seen appearing in London's squares, to mark the country's exit from the European Union. Beyond an all too lively and often vague narration of the economic consequences that such a step, now taken, could have on the old continent (and not only)...

16 February 2020 Financial Services Regulation

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Fluency to test offline and programmable payments for ECB's digital euro project

Even if I can understand the pragmatic ECB's choise, it sounds curious to invole an extra-UE/not euro company lik the UK Fluency for ECB's digital euro project ...

08 May 2025 16:56 Read comment

Reposting Open Letter to the EU-Commission - as not sure that the organisation ID is understood

Point #8 is the most relevant one (in my opinion), though, I'm not fairly sure that there is a strong willingness to understand.

You statement "(which should be mandatory for all organizations and use the same standard as e-invoices)" shouldn't be put between brackets ...

30 Dec 2022 15:24 Read comment

Chip to let users invest in collectables like vintage watches, whisky and fine art

As far as I understand, the proposal fits in a so called Ce.De.Fi solution.

Am'I wrong?

21 Apr 2022 15:52 Read comment

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