Zopa’s P2P brand sold and rebranded as Plata Finance p2pfinancenews.co.uk/2022/07/08/zop… by @p2pfinancenews 2022-07-08 11:11:27

Ukrainians currently account for 8% of people living in Poland and more than 25% in some cities such as Wrocław, Rzeszów - latest data 🇵🇱🇺🇦

Wakacje kredytowe można wziąć tylko na jeden kredyt, ale są przypadki składania na 2-3, a rekordzista złożył wnioski w sześciu bankach. Banki będą kierować zawiadomienia do prokuratury - mówi Interii Tadeusz Białek, wiceprezes Związku Banków Polskich biznes.interia.pl/raporty/raport…

"On average, 55% of attempts to fund Crypto wallets with cards are declined" sytaylor.substack.com/p/fintech-food… Simon Taylor

"Whoever said there are no bad ideas in brainstorming never had access to Elon Musk’s phone." theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

90pc of European platforms applying for EU-wide licence - Peer2Peer Finance News p2pfinancenews.co.uk/2022/10/03/90p…

#ECPA Alain is right, but I’d say it even more strongly: no offline, no resilience

Alipay test of money transfers via WeChat seen as first breach of mobile payments ‘walled garden’ sc.mp/6syj?utm_sourc… via South China Morning Post

New BIS paper - "the first assessment of the transmission of monetary policy to consumer spending using confidential credit card data" bis.org/publ/work1064.…

14.5 per cent. This is how many card payments are made at terminals in Poland using solutions such as Apple Pay or Google Pay cashless.pl/13183-apple-pa…

4D Chess in Card Payments by Nikil link.medium.com/c48EOtjzvyb

Wise is becoming a platform After displacing the FX revenue banks made from consumer and SMB cross border payments... Now they're selling back the infrastructure Baller ffnews.com/newsarticle/pa…

"non-bank financial companies that handle more than five million transactions per year face the same rules as large banks" finextra.com/newsarticle/43…

APP fraud is on rise in US thestreet.com/investing/zell…

Adyen - solid 2023 results 📊adyen.com/press-and-medi…

97,2% of card payments at POS in Poland are contactless - new ATH bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Plat… (PL)

My new essay looks at Curve's business model, how it impacted Visa and Mastercard, and the innovation that followed. Let me know what you think. It's much longer than my usual essays, yet in this case the depth is useful to tell the full story. paymentsculture.com/p/did-curve-fo…

New ECB working paper - impact of stablecoins on monetary policy transmission ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps…

The best summary of digital euro for general public so far IMO, from Banque France banque-france.fr/en/governors-i…

"This is a distribution problem, an education problem, and a wrapper problem, but a credit problem it is not – yet" caia.org/blog/2026/04/2…