The European payments and fintech space has built strong momentum over the past couple of years, boosted by favorable regulation in key markets like the UK and surging investment in financial tech startups. But what needs to happen to sustain that growth, what role should the banks be playing, and what’s next for this industry?
There's a huge amount going on in the European payments and fintech startup space right now, which is great news for the industry but makes staying on top of everything challenging at best. With that in mind we've picked out five what we think are the most-interesting stories across the region right now.
Zwipe founder and CEO Kim Kristian Humborstad talks about his vision for the company, what he’s learned building the business and why startup teams need a good sense of humour.
Among the less than positive news such as declining iPhone sales and more significantly, declining revenue for first time in over a decade, Tim Cook was very upbeat about Apple Pay.
Visa looks to be making the most of the glorious payments opportunity presented by the 2016 Olympics in Rio by planning to launch 4,000 POS terminals and introduce new wearable and mobile payment methods.
Miss the FIAs already? Can't wait for 2017? Relive the fintech revelry with the highlights reel from the Awards!
Earlier this month Barclays entered a commercial relationship with blockchain-based social payments service Circle, proving itself to be one of the more hands on traditional banks when it comes to supporting and working with the fintech startup space
Over 500 of the best and brightest fintech innovators gathered at the second annual FinTech Innovation Awards to sip champagne, discuss everything payments and recognise 15 standouts of the industry.
In ten years since launch, e-commerce payments firm Klarna has quietly grown to be one of Europe’s most highly-valued financial tech startups with 45 million users, 65,000 merchants, 1,500 employees and a $2.25bn price tag. Catching up with PaymentEye during the Money2020 Europe show, co-founder and CEO Sebastian Semiatkowski talks about why cross border is the next big shift in e-commerce, the challenges of hiring senior talent and the evolution of the Nordic startup scene.
The finalists for the 2016 FinTech Innovation Awards were announced today across all 14 categories. Find out here who made the list.
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