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Our latest quiz tests your wearable payments knowledge and sees if you know when the Apple Watch was first released, which Samsung wearable device was the first to offer Samsung Pay and what high-end watches have their own payment capabilities.

Elsewhere in the newsletter, we cover the Holvi and SumUp partnership, which sees the two high profile European fintech startups working together to offer better financial services to small businesses. We take a closer look at what each startup looks to gain from the partnership.

To round off the newsletter, we catch up with Howard Berg, SVP, UK & Ireland, Gemalto who shared his thoughts on the current payments landscape and what the future will look like.

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Holvi and SumUp, two of Europe’s most high profile fintech startups are hooking up to offer better financial services to small businesses and the growing community of ‘solo-preneurs’, self-employed people and freelancers that struggle to access traditional banking and finance products.

Hellenic Bank has partnered with digital security company, Gemalto, to bring contactless payment wristbands to Cypriot consumers, and we catch up with the latter’s SVP, UK and Ireland.