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Douwe Lycklama, founding partner at INNOPAY, formulates a lucid analysis of the ...

The following article is an excerpt from the book Everything Transaction. Facebook caused quite a stir back in 2019 when it announced plans to launch a global cryptocurrency called Libra. But gradually everything went quiet and it now seems that the project has been scrapped completely. What went wrong?On 18 June 2019, Facebook along with...

The Winter Olympics in Beijing were not just a showcase for the world’s best athletes. The event was also an international testing ground for China’s new digital currency – the digital yuan (or e-CNY) – and reinvigorated the interest in its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) plans. Rather than focusing on the functional payment aspects ...

Blockchain, Bitcoin and Decentralised Finance (DeFi) are all relatively new terms in today’s commercial vocabulary. Although their impact on the future of business is not yet entirely clear, at INNOPAY we believe that the genie is out of the bottle. The shift from institutional (centralised) to infrastructural (decentralised) trust is now...

The 2021 edition of Euroforum’s annual conference on the future of payments (‘Toekomst van het Betalingsverkeer’) – which took place in Amsterdam’s Beurs van Berlage on 9 September and was actually held as a physical event rather than a virtual one – attracted over 200 attendees. INNOPAY’s Josje Fiolet was among them, and she has written ...