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In this issue of the PaymentEye e-newsletter, Victor Trokoudes, CEO and co-founder of Plum and Samantha Seaton, CEO of Moneyhub, give their insight on the effects of Open Banking and PSD2 in 2018.

Elsewhere, Nick Day, Small World FS, discusses the key role that banks still play in the transfer market, and Gary McVie, Experian, highlights the importance of embracing customer experience post-PSD2.

Victor Trokoudes, CEO and Co-Founder of Plum, and Samantha Seaton, CEO of Moneyhub provide insight on how Open Banking and PSD2 will affect the start-ups, the banks and the consumers in 2018.

Regardless of the rise of mobile wallets, or the ubiquity of smart phones even in the developing world, banks on the receiving side of the payments world have continued to grow in importance. By Nick Day, CEO, Small World FS.

More than half of the world’s web traffic comes from a mobile phone. This growth in digital usage is contributing towards a huge rise in online purchases -and a rise in fraud as a result. PSD2 is here to help, but how does it influence the digital journey? By Gary McVie, Experian.

citizenM hotels is partnering with leading virtual payment FinTech company Conferma, to make bookings easier and safer for its business travellers.

ACI Worldwide today announced an extended partnership with Klarna, leveraging ACI’s UP e-commerce Payments solution.

Wirecard have collaborated with Fortress GB to launch The One Card – the first integrated contactless payment stadium season card – to the UK sports market.