As conference season rolls on, here's what I'll be looking for at Money20/20
23 October 2015
Dan Latimore
We’re smack in the middle of conference season and the team has been traveling all over the world. We’ve been busy with Sibos and BAI (unfortunately held at exactly the same time), AFP, and next week, Money20/20. In only its fourth year this new conference had to move to a new venue so that it could avoid running afoul of the fire marshal. Given the excitement around the payments ecosystem, we think it will be an exhausting whirlwind of a week. What will Zil Bareisis and I be looking for? Three main topics top the list:
- What’s the view on blockchain? There was a lot of discussion at Sibos on the corporate side (we don’t think retail will be leading), but we’d like to find out if there’s heat behind the light.
- What sort of value added services around the payment are in production or on the drawing board?
- Is the apparent stall in mobile payments adoption temporary, and what can be done by ecosystem participants to jump-start it?