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We’re at Money20/20 Copenhagen! The Nordic weather may be bleak, but the discussion about payments is anything but. Our coverage of the event so far includes an interview with co-founder and CEO of Klarna, Sebastian Semiatkowski, a roundup of the first day including comments and insights from head of Amazon Payments division, Patrick Gauthier on the customer need and the Home as the next great “hub of commerce” and a deep-dive taste of some Track Sessions Money20/20 has to offer! We also spoke to the head of Payments Strategy at Silicon Valley Bank, Reetika Grewal, about the current VC landscape and the importance of company culture.

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Picking Copenhagen to host the first edition of Money2020 Europe is a coup for not just the Danish capital, but also the wider Nordics, helping shine a new light on the region’s thriving tech ecosystems: this time through the lens of financial technology. Here are five of the key things we’ve heard at the show so far. Stay tuned for more coverage!

To accompany our daily roundup of all the comings and goings of Money2020 Europe, we will also be exploring in more detail some of the Track Sessions from the event! On Monday, we attended a session that explored the current hot trends in the payments industry including mobile wallets, blockchain and social media.

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.

‘No organisation is safe from the cyber threat’. This UK press headline appeared in the wake of well-publicised security breaches at telecoms group TalkTalk and power utility British Gas in October and sums up a widely-held view on the vulnerability of all organisations to determined hackers, says Graham Buck

Western Union Business Solutions has been confirmed as the drinks reception sponsor at the FinTech Innovation Awards, the annual celebration of the most innovative financial technology projects and pioneers.