Dear Subscriber,

Last night we attended the FinTech Innovation Awards that sought to recognise some of the best companies in the industry. It was a wonderful night with standouts including Dan Ariely, professor of Psychology at Duke University, discussing the psychology of payments through some fascinating anecdotes. Winners included the Norwegian company Zwipe winning the best Innovation in Payments award, Cashless on the Catwalk at London Fashion Week by The 10 Group and Visa Europe Collab winning Marketing Campaign of the Year and the biggest winner of the night, ClearScore winning both, FinTech Startup of the Year and FinTech innovation of the Year.

Elsewhere, a recent report says that cashless transactions at European festivals could hit 7 million this year as more people and organisers are starting to see the benefits of the technology such as speed of transactions and improved efficiency.

Finally, we speak to Copenhagen startup, Pleo, which wants to re-invent the company card.

Enjoy!

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.

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Company card culture and submitting expense reports are a mess right now, as anyone who’s been asked to pay for something and claim it back later can attest. Danish payments startup Pleo wants to make that a thing of the past with a company payments card

Social media platforms have been dipping their toes in to ecommerce for a little while now,but recently they seem more committed to taking the plunge in these potentially lucrative waters. What does this mean for the future of payments? George Carey asks the experts.

The sight of a person throwing their arms in the air as they realise they didn’t bring enough cash with them to the bar at a festival may soon be relegated to the past as the number of cashless transactions being made at festivals this year could hit seven million, according to Festipay, a cashless service provider.