Dear Subscriber,

We have some very exciting news! Last year we took your valued engagement with PaymentEye to the next level by evolving the ways in which you as subscribers can contribute and share opinions and experiences. Your editorial submissions have been of the highest quality and provided invaluable insight into the industry.

To build on that wonderful engagement, we have now put our Editorial Calendar online to allow you to see what themes we will be exploring on a monthly basis and more importantly how you can get involved.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Benjamin Rabinovich

Editor

This year Santander customers will be able to speak to their Santander Smartbank App and ask about their card spending as well as make payments, report lost cards, set up account alerts and answer a broad range of questions about spend. The bank says it is the first UK high street bank to bring voice-assistant technology into the customer user experience.

The push toward cashless transactions is coming from many directions, but is the transition away from coins and notes happening too fast? Sweden’s central bank thinks so.

One of the biggest conferences in the US fintech space, Money 2020 Las Vegas, is launching in Europe for the first time this April in a move that speaks to the region’s growing reputation as a launching ground for financial tech startups.

Not content with allowing you to buy food using your fridge, MasterCard is continuing its pledge to turn everything into a payment device by partnering with luxury watch brand, Bulgari, and integrating contactless capabilities into its Diagono Magn@sium.

Interest and investment in Blockchain technology continues to remain strong as Blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic today announced a $5 million Series A funding round in the same week as an IBM VP says the technology is now “inherently more secure than traditional systems”.