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Anne Willem De Vries

Anne Willem De Vries Co-founder and CEO at Silverflow

Why Cultural Alignment is the Missing Piece in Payment Partnerships

At its core, the payments industry is an intricate network of providers, schemes, processors, merchants and regulators, each playing a role in moving money securely and efficiently. No single organisation can operate in isolation. Those who try inevitably discover that innovation slows, resilience suffers and opportunities are missed. The future o...

/payments /identity

Craig Ramsey

Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide

Banking on inclusion: what instant payments could mean for millions

The EU’s financial landscape is seemingly entering a perfect storm. The outlook for GDP growth has been revised down by 0.2% for 2025. Meanwhile, fluctuating tariff changes are impacting the Eurozone’s economic recovery, and geopolitical uncertainty is creating a volatile environment. In the midst of these challenges, the Instant Payments Regulati...

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James Richardson

James Richardson Global Head of Solutions at Bottomline

Are you managing risk effectively in your payments infrastructure?

Business leaders and their CFOs are contending with global trade-related pressures, persistent inflation, and the looming possibility of recession. Some may experience reduced revenue and liquidity issues. Others who hold different currencies may face unexpected losses due to ebbs and flows in foreign exchange rates. This volatility makes it diffi...

/regulation Financial Risk Management

Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Trading & Growth at Deriv

Is Nvidia’s $5 trillion milestone within reach or already priced in?

Nvidia reported Q2 revenue of $46.7 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $1.05, both ahead of expectations. The company projected Q3 revenue of $54 billion, also above consensus. Yet the stock fell more than 3% in after-hours trading, reflecting investor concern that at a $4.3 trillion market cap, growth may already be priced in. With China ...

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Steve Pannifer

Steve Pannifer SVP Digital Identity at Fime

What eIDAS means for the payments industry

Regulatory burden or future opportunity? The European Union eIDAS programme is hugely ambitious. The goal is to provide individuals and businesses with digital identity tools as an enabler across the entire EU digital economy – supporting the secure, convenient, privacy-respecting and inclusive access to services. At the centre of the initiative i...

/payments /identity Digital Identity Management

Anton Tekhtelev

Anton Tekhtelev Head of Product and Business Development at Guavapay

Why Fintech UX Is About Processes, Not Just Pixels

When we talk about user experience, the first things that come to mind are colors, layouts, and interactions. But during my work at Guavapay, I discovered something bigger — Good UX is not just about pixels. It’s about processes. The Problem With “Late Feedback” When I joined, our product design reviews revealed a clear pattern: 7 out of 10 comm

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Anton Tekhtelev

Anton Tekhtelev Head of Product and Business Development at Guavapay

How to Grow 2.8x in a “Low Season” by Fixing Your Fintech Onboarding UX

I’m Anton, and I’m responsible for product growth at Guavapay. My job is to make sure our products grow and that our users don’t grow grey hairs trying to figure them out. For months, our user funnels were… well, they were leaky. Like a colander trying to hold water. We analysed the data, spoke with users who dropped off, and even (okay, this is a ...

/retail /startups User Experience

Erica Andersen

Erica Andersen Marketing at smartR AI

The AI Mirage: Turning Financial Innovation from Dream to Reality

The shimmering promise of Artificial Intelligence in finance is a siren song, whispering of fortunes to be made. Faster trades, smarter investments, ironclad risk management, and seamless compliance – the narrative is intoxicating. We've all heard it. The potential to reshape the financial landscape is undeniable. Yet, the reality often falls sho

/ai /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Sam Boboev

Sam Boboev Founder at Fintech Wrap Up

Deep Dive: Automation Is Eating the CFO Stack — Ramp Shows How

Financial teams have long been stuck in a “bump, bump, bump” routine of manual busywork – to borrow a phrase from Winnie-the-Pooh. But that’s changing fast. In the last year, AI has barreled into the finance back-office. Expense reports are getting filed by bots. Invoices are paying themselves. And one startup in particular – Ramp – just raised a...

/ai /payments

Sergio Artimenia

Sergio Artimenia CEO at Geomotiv

Trump’s Tariffs and the Laffer Curve: A Historical Lesson in Taxation

When Donald Trump reintroduced tariffs as a central pillar of U.S. economic policy, many commentators framed it as a political maneuver rather than an economic one. Yet the trajectory of tariff revenues under his administration provides a textbook case study of the Laffer Curve — the economic principle that illustrates the relationship between tax...

/people /markets Behavioral Economics in Banking

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