CSFI Innovation in Payments

Lunchtime round table, Monday 2nd March 2009

[Dave Birch] The second of the lunchtime round tables in the Innovation in Payment series will be held at the Innholder's Hall in London on 2nd March 2009. All are welcome, but as space is limited please reserve a place with the CSFI before coming along. This second seminar takes takes a first look at the future of payments by looking back and wondering why it was that people got things wrong when they looked at the future. This is called the "paelo-future". If we can understand why people were wrong about the future (instead of just laughing at how wrong they were) it's one way of making sure that our prediction for the future are more useful. You can download the full invitation here [PDF 89Kb].

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[Dave Birch] The first of the fellowship round tables took place in London and featured Paul Smee (chief executive of the Payments Council), Charlie Nunn (head of European payments for McKinsey) and Pedro Deserrano (head of VPAY for Visa Europe). The panel gave a good, high-level view of the current European payments world and the we moved on to a round table discussion with questions from the nearly 50 attendees.