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How Could Digital Currency Work?

The Bank of England and the UK Treasury have announced a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Taskforce to coordinate the exploration of a potential British CBDC. But how could a digital Pound actually work? As it happens, this is something that Consult Hyperion knows rather a lot about. Apart from our work on the first British central bank digital currency (Mondex) back in the 1990s, our work on the first population-scale mobile money scheme (M-PESA) in the 2000s and our work on the most transformational contactless payment roll-out (Transport for London) in the 2010s, our practical experience across implementation platforms means that we understand the architectural options better than anyone.

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Trust Payments enters the Nordic market

Trust Payments announced it has entered the Nordic market via two initial strategic partnerships. The company has partnered with Global Sales Partner (GSP) to deploy omnichannel solutions into the market, as well as with POS ONE, a leading cloud-based, hardware agnostic integration solution for merchants needing multiple channels to market.

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Curve launches new crowdfund to bring customers closer to its growth journey

Curve launches new crowdfunding round to enable its 2m+ customers to be part of the super app’s exciting growth journey. Potential investors can now pre-register to receive early access to the campaign ahead of its public launch. New crowdfund follows Curve’s successful £72.5m Series C fundraise. Funds will be used to support product innovation and Curve’s expansion into the US and deeper into Europe

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West Africa’s challenger bank, the Vista Bank Group, selects paytech provider Radar Payments by BPC to drive its digital payment strategy

Vista Bank Group in West Africa has chosen Radar Payments for its processing activities and to drive digital payment adoption in the region. The solution will include SmartVista’s card issuance and lifecycle management, payment switching, ATM and point-of-sales management as well as providing digital channels such as mobile banking and e-wallet; personalised to both retail and corporate clients.

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Gain the Lead: How It All Started

The Wirecard scandal 2020 shook the Fintech community and created a lot of questions for the industry regulators in Germany – thousands of people lost their jobs and client operations all over the world were disrupted.

But as we all know, in the middle of difficulty there is always lies opportunity. So we decided to act – this is a blog article that tells a story of how Gain The Lead came to be.

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