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Aron Alexander

Aron Alexander Founder and CEO at Runa

The New Payout Standard: Five Shifts Redefining How Money Moves Around the World

Picture a rideshare driver that finishes her day and needs gas money now—not Friday when weekly payouts process. Elsewhere, a digital creator waits three days for payment to clear, forcing him to delay rent. Meanwhile, a global marketplace loses thousands of sellers who migrate to a competitor offering same-day settlement. These moments reveal a f...

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Jelle Van Schaick

Jelle Van Schaick Head of Marketing at Intergiro

Why Creator Platforms Need Embedded Finance

The creator economy is growing fast. What was a $100 billion market in 2023 has more than doubled, and it’s not slowing down. But if you look under the hood, it becomes clear that the infrastructure supporting this boom is lopsided. Most of the energy and investment has gone into the front-end — platforms, audience tools, content monetisation. Th...

/payments /startups Embedded Finance

Samuel Crompton

Samuel Crompton Associate Partner (Banking, Resilience and AI) at IBM

Operational Resilience failures in the UK Retail Sector: A Wake-Up Call

Operational resilience failures have been increasingly in the headlines recently, exposing cracks in the UK retail sector. With consumers feeling the impact, there’s a renewed urgency for retailers to strengthen their business continuity, with disaster recovery strategies now higher on the agenda than before. While the banking sector has undergo...

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Sam Boboev

Sam Boboev Founder at Fintech Wrap Up

Deep Dive: Shopify - The Operating System of Commerce

This edition of Fintech Wrap Up dives into Shopify’s expansive product ecosystem, business strategy, financial performance, and how new bets like B2B, payments, cross-border tools and AI are shaping its future Shopify is no longer just an ecommerce website builder — it’s evolved into a global commerce operating system powering millions of busines

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Akhil Rao

Akhil Rao Director at Nth Exception

Beyond Messaging: How ISO 20022 Structured Data Will Reshape Global Payments

The global cross border payments ecosystem is undergoing one of its most significant transformations in decades. With the November 2025 deadline marking the end of the coexistence period for SWIFT MT and ISO 20022 messaging standards, financial institutions are accelerating efforts to align with the CBPR+ roadmap. However, this transition is m...

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Ted Sausen

Ted Sausen Director - AML Subject Matter Expert at NICE Actimize

Preparing for the Shift to ISO 20022 – How FIs Can Get it Right

As the financial industry faces the upcoming deadline for ISO 20022 adoption, institutions worldwide are working to ensure a smooth transition. This new global messaging standard promises to enhance transparency, operational efficiency, and compliance, but also introduces significant technological and procedural challenges. What is ISO 20022, and ...

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Anand Vaidya

Anand Vaidya Principal Solutions Consultant at Icon Solutions

Time for a Mindset Shift in High-Value Payments Processing

The systemic importance of high-value payments to banks’ operations and offering – and, by extension, the global economy – means they are almost always a key priority when exploring a new payments product or initiative. So, what are the specific considerations and challenges that high-value payments present? And what capabilities must payments proc...

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Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Combining technology and teams to navigate global shifts in trade flows and economic activity

The economic landscape of the last fifty-plus years is being torn up and that’s having an obvious impact on cross-border trade and payments globally. The US Administration’s tariffs and the ongoing friction and shifts in trade and money flows are leading to difficult challenges for banks and their customers to navigate. Whilst cross-border payment...

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Olivier Lens

Olivier Lens Head of Sub Sahara Africa at Swift

How harmonised global standards are helping African businesses scale beyond borders

Africa is entering a new era of digital economic opportunity. The continent’s internet economy is projected to contribute nearly $180 billion to GDP this year, accounting for around 5.2% of total output, according to a study by Google and the International Finance Corporation. From fintech startups to global e-commerce ventures, African businesses...

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Scott Dawson

Scott Dawson CEO at DECTA

Modern Warfare: What is Payments’ Role in Conflict?

One month after the start of the Russian war against the Ukraine in 2022, the Ukrainian government took an unusual decision for a country at war with one of the world’s most powerful militaries – they legalised the cryptocurrency industry. While in other parts of the world crypto is associated with anything from utopian visions of a post-banking

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