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Fatemeh Nikayin Co-Founder at Rivero
Account-to-account transactions, otherwise known as ‘pay by bank’, is a fast growing payment trend that leverages existing payment infrastructure and new open banking protocols to securely make a transaction. Thanks to its low fees and high security it's becoming a popular payment topic, but some pressing issues could come to light as the technolo...
19 October 2022 /payments /retail
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
If you are not working in the payments industry, it remains a mystery why payments are such a complex domain. In its essence, it is just a debit from one account and a credit on another account, which in a digital world should be super easy to accomplish. The reality is however a whole different ball game, resulting from a complex web of dozens of ...
06 June 2022 /payments /retail
Retired Member
If you are a European investor in any asset class, you know that inflation is at a ten-year high and that it is critical to deploy cryptocurrency to hedge against creeping inflation and create high-yield passive income. But which company should you trust with your digital assets such as Bitcoin and USDT? There are all kinds of cryptocurrency wealt...
25 October 2021 /wealth /crypto
Jens Bader CEO at Funanga AG
SEPA is a European role model in payments harmonisation. It started as the logical next step after the introduction of the Euro as a single currency, and has already standardised Euro payments across borders and simplified payments via bank transfer, direct debit and debit card. Completing this mission has been a fantastic achievement unlike anyth...
28 July 2021 /payments /regulation
Peter Larsson Business Eeveloper - Europe at Tietoevry Banking
One year ago, I posted an article What’s next for Nordic payments? Rise of real-time that is cross Nordic border – the P27 initiative that now has become a de facto infrastructure with a real plan going forward. Even further, Lars Sjögren (CEO@P27) states that there is no plan B! In this work, there are multiple parallel streams to gain traction...
31 December 2020 /payments /wholesale
Laura Francis Head of Brand and Marketing at Form3
What do a Fintech, a Tier1 bank and a non-bank PSP have in common? The committment and drive to make payments faster, easier and more cost effective for the global financial community. This includes non-banks. The possibility of collaboration between these parties was once thought impossible but today, by utilising close partnerships with Tier 1 b...
05 May 2020 /payments
A bit more than 3 months ago, I submitted the blog "PSD2 - 10 questions I would like to see a clear answer on" (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/psd2-10-questions-i-would-like-see-clear-answer-joris-lochy/), raising 10 questions around PSD2, on which I was searching an answer on. Via different channels, I got requests of many people, that ...
16 January 2020 /payments
Bernd Richter SVP - FIS Impact Ventures at FIS
Yet another run on mobile payments in Europe - or really the next chapter to build a realistic and successful counterbalance to Apple, Google, Samsung, Visa, Mastercard and alike? An newly created alliance of European payment providers wants to create a pan-European standard for smartphone payments as an alternative that does not require Apple, G...
03 September 2019 /payments
Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services
The Daily Express issued a “shock horror” story on 30th December that the EU was in financial meltdown over the loss of the UK’s budget contributions. This seems overstated. They have no need to worry for a little while if they get their €40 billion “divorce settlement” – which will be used to cover normal expenditure and not the items that it was ...
17 January 2019 /payments
The Bank of England recently issued its Financial Stability Report and Stress Test results - November 2018. In it the Bank warned that 2 “further deterioration in Italy’s financial outlook could result in material spillovers to the euro area and the UK”. In its more detailed comments the Bank noted that Italian Non-performing loans (NPLs) account f...
03 December 2018 /regulation /wholesale
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