 | | | Dear Subscriber, In this issue of the PaymentEye e-newsletter, David Beach asks if GDPR and Open Banking are two sides of the same coin.
Elsewhere, Earthport discuss their recent trade mission to Atlanta, payments capital of the USA, and there’s more good news for SMB’s as Payoneer announce their increased focus on SMB cross-border payments.
| | Data privacy has recently come to occupy the mainstream and public imagination. But it has been a headache for many years in the financial services with executives scratching their heads over how to get their organisations ready for May 25. |  | | The Atlanta summit came in the wake of Earthport being granted a New York Money Transmitter licence earlier this year. |  | | What’s it like at the forefront of digital innovation? A conversation with Julie Gerdeman, GM Payments and Financing, SAP Ariba, which took place at SAP Ariba Live in Amsterdam, 2018. |  | | Recently, there has been increased focus on the role that SMBs play in the international market, especially post-Brexit, with current signs indicating that the picture might not be as bleak as a pre-Brexit forecast might have suggested. |  | | In the year of financial democratisation through handy, consumer-focused fintech, ever more applications aimed at helping the average Joe to better understand their finances are popping up by the day. |  | | | |