Payments are the bloodstream of our economy. Take a minute and think what would happen if we only could pay with cash. Receiving your salary, buy groceries, pay for you Spotify subscription, order at Bol.com / Amazon / Temu? Or as a company, buy machines, sell stock, acquirer other companies?
This is why the payments industry has my professional interest in the last 20 years or so.
Not only the importance, but also the things that happens behind the scenes are fascinating.
As a consumer you enter your card details in a webshop on another continent and only seconds later the website informs you the payment has been made. Or as a business approves the multimillion Euro payment in a foreign currency to a supplier, what is the magic that happens after you press the approval button?
On this website I will try to give a look behind the scenes.