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Rumor has it that Thales could acquire Atos’ cybersecurity and digital services activities, as, according to media BFM business, it just got the support of French Economy and Finance Ministry as well as the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA), the French Government Defense procurement and technology agency. Already in February 2022, Reuters quoted the amount of EUR 2.7 billion for this acquisition. According to analysts, the government vision is to support Thales in buildi

Last week, there was numerous reactions about a declaration by a Google engineer saying, “the company’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) was starting to get conscious.” More specifically, Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer, claimed “he had profound discussions with the tech company's artificial intelligence system LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications),” according to MSNBC. Google management promptly reacted by putting Blake Lemoine on “paid leave”, as a result of violati

While the economic world is increasingly talking about recession, while inflation is on everyone's lips, while increase of base rates is frightening the business community, while shortages impact our activities, our industry seems to be continuing to thrive in spite of the adverse economic conditions. Trusted Connectivity Alliance (TCA), which has been replacing SIMalliance already for a few years, has just published its market data for 2021. According to the industry associa

When one walks around a major event like Money20/20 Europe, major trends materialize through the exhibitors' booths as well as the topics of the conferences. This year, the SoftPOS, or in other terms the ability to use a simple smartphone to emulate a payment terminal, is on everyone's mind! Many players are already present on this field, including MyPinPad, SoftPos, Softpay, Famoco, DejaMobile, MineSec, Halo Dot, Spectra Technologies, Rubean, among others… The megatrend that

What makes Money20/20 stand out is the quality of the conference. John Collison, Stripe CEO, was one of the speakers this year. Stripe's original promise in 2010 was to make payments easy for merchants. Stripe, once known as one of the most brilliant startups has now become a strong multinational company, valued at US$ 95 billion (EUR 89 billion) after it raised US$ 600 million (EUR 561 million) in its latest round of fundraising in 2021. Stripe considers merchants and consum

Money20/20 has just started. Every participant is happy to be back to the event, which is, as usual, a great place to meet and to listen to everyone who counts in the payment industry. This morning, Martina Weimert, CEO of EPI (European Payments Initiative) Interim Company was on stage to answer the question: "Will there ever be pan-European rules and rails to pay?" Unsurprisingly, the answer is not a strong and resounding "Yes." After lots of hopes have been put in EPI and t