You can’t miss Sofia Freyder. She’s currently Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase for digital payments. Iron straight platinum blond hair, red lipstick, and poise that contrasts the sea of men in what often feels like a ratio of 10 to 1 at a money transfer conference. I hesitate to do the cliche thing of focusing…
DetallesThis year’s Consensus 2019 was dubbed the “survivor” conference, which eludes to how only the ones delivering real value remain in the blockchain industry after the overpopulation of 2018. I quietly had lunch on Day 2 and met a Henry Balani who took a break from crypto and started talking to me about international money…
DetallesI split my time between the crypto and international money transfer world. To speak in generalities, the energy, mindset, and concerns are dramatically different. When it comes to compliance, however, I do think some parts of the cryptosphere are starting to edge closer: Fear the regulator — or your business will face capital punishment. No…
DetallesLa semana pasada, en la conferencia anual de ESTAThe European Cash Management Association is a non-profit association established in Brussels in 1975 representing the interests of the sector throughout Europe and count 90% of the European cash management companies as members.... want more?, European Cash Management Association (Asociación de Compañías Europeas de Gestión de Dinero), esta vez en Viena, participé en la moderación de un panel denominado “The war on cash: black clouds or blue sky ahead?” (La guerra contra el efectivo: ¿nubes negras o cielos despejados en el…
I hold a special place in my remittance heart for Faisal Khan, a name you’ll surely see if you Google anything on remittances or money transfers. Faisal is also an advisor to Hippocorn, a venture capital firm out of Denmark. I would not be working on the RemTECH Awards with the director of the International…
DetallesThe Money Transfers & Remittances industry is a relatively young industry. Started in the early eighties, it saw a great technological breakthrough, the fax, that transformed the way orders were filled in distant corners of the earth and transmitted for payment. The evolution since then has been mesmerizing. I analyze the trends in the industry…
DetallesLeon Isaacs once joked that he’d throw me over a boat when I met him in New York at the first RemTECH Awards back in 2016. The comment from the CEO and co-founder of Developing Markets Association (DMA) was in response to the research I had published on the US remittance market. DMA is a…
DetallesAnalyzing the results of IMTC ASIA 2018 in Manila September 19-21, the first thing that comes to mind is the very interesting state of the money transfer industry in The Philippines. Companies, colleagues, regulators, government representatives, were very open to share their ideas, their work, their vision, which contributed to understand key transformations that the…
DetallesThis article was conceived after discussing with colleagues in the industry why the payments world has been driven into the Cash vs. Digital dichotomyThe obsessive need to pit the use of cash versus the use of digital payment means such as cards. This fictional split creates confusion as cash, cards, cryptocurrencies are just payment methods…
