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Roberto Garavaglia

Roberto Garavaglia

Independent Management Consultant at Innovative Payments & blockchain Strategic Advisor
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Bio 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, for Hoepli Editore. Career History Experienced in market analysis and great expert in European regulatory (PSD, PSD2, IFR, EMD2, AMLD4, AMLD5, eIDAS, etc.), since 2003 I advise several companies, by helping them to assess the right business model for innovative payment propositions or new services/products.

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Financial Services Regulation

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

16 Feb 2020

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)...

Blockchain Observations

In the amazing world of tokens

01 Feb 2020

A complete analysis of token definitions, their main uses, the future of decentralized applications and token-economy, in an evolutionary path that goes beyond the 3.0 paradigm, crosses that of Industry 4.0, to attain a Society 5.0 concept. These are the contents of this article that, starting from the examination of the term “token”, very often c...

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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 Reply Read article

European Payments Initiative seeks funding to take on Visa and Mastercard

  "The EPI is striving to create a unified pan-European payment system, offering a card for consumers and merchants across Europe"  ... ehmm, it's EPI on same way of the unforgettable "forgotten" past initiatives like Monnet Project, EAPS?

17 Nov 2021 Reply Read article

Amazon to ban Visa credit cards in the UK

  Less than a couple of weeks ago, Amzon has given green light on Venmo (PayPal) payments acceptance for US shopper. Now, is banning Visa cards for UK shopper. Both the moves seems to me quite strictly correlated. Next step? ... open the doors to PayPal payments acceptance also in UK? ...

17 Nov 2021 Reply Read article

Digital Pound Foundation launches to promote UK CBDC

  @Jeremy Light thanks for sharing such as preview and if you don't mind I'd ask you for a couple of clarifications that could be of common interest: 1) In my understanding, your project is based on stablecoin (I assume bearer), 100% backed by commercial bank deposits, so, it's easyer to consider it as a synthetic CBDCs’, since the coins would not be a liability of the central bank, isn't it? 2) Your stablecoin project will give the transactions the benefit of programmable money? I reckon that the question needs to deep dive in the infrastructure pingNpay payment network is based on, e.g. is the DLT adopted able to support smart contracts?

15 Oct 2021 Reply Read article