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Speaking during an interview in the Finetics™ Studio at Money 20/20, Hyperwallet’s CEO Brent Warrington shared his insight on worker payments, regulation and what he’d like to see from the industry, whilst EPA’s director general, Tony Craddock, talked regulation in Europe versus the US, challenging the big banks, education and what’s next for payments in 2016. Elsewhere, we consider whether the current payment landscape is too excitable and abandons reason and patience in favour of impulse and unrealistic expectations.

Speaking during an interview in the Finetics™ Studio at Money20/20, Hyperwallet’s CEO Brent Warrington shared his insight on worker payments, regulation and what he’d like to see from the industry.

During an interview in the Finetics™ Studio at Money20/20 in Las Vegas, EPA’s director general, Tony Craddock, talks regulation in Europe versus the US, challenging the big banks, education and what’s next for payments in 2016.

We see the potential of all of these technologies, we imagine them changing how we make payments and thus get excited. That excitement fills the space where patience and reason once resided. It makes us forget that whilst these technologies are new, they may not necessarily be the instant hit we want them to be with consumers.

UnionPay has launched QuickPass, its new Host Card Emulation mobile solution, in Beijing this week in cooperation with over 20 commercial banks.

CVC Capital Partners’ investment fund, CVC Growth Fund, will provide an $80 million growth equity investment to Kount, a provider of online and mobile fraud detection and prevention solutions.