Another great event for meeting up and having fun with partners, old, new and in the process of kicking the tyres with BUT not many have publicly said on here what they were saying in private. The layout was horrendous, I'm sure they won't make the same mistake again by putting the biggest stage about a 10 min walk, across a foot bridge to the connections lounge. 19k step average over the week which is good but having to leave sessions or meetings at booths early to make the trip to the next meeting or be late (how rude) was annoying me and many I met with. Content left a lot to be desired with regards to building new or improving business models. I get it, there's a lot of buzz around AI and Stables/CBDCs BUT this is a Europe event and we have PSD3 coming. M2020 was at peak content quality when firms were coming through, making the most of PSD2 and Open Banking. Now there's a lot of navel gazing. As some others have mentioned, more an exhibition now than a conference. It's still a must attend event for buyers and sellers in this wonderful space due to numbers, but if you want to learn and be inspired maybe look elsewhere. You'd probably take more away from EBADay and Sibos if you're in crossborder payments. You'll need to arrange your own tunes and parties though!
This week our COO Mark Hewlett was living all things fintech at the annual Money20/20 conference in Amsterdam. As always, a wonderful event full to the brim with inspiration and thought leadership on the future of fintech.
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