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How will we pay in 5 years? To answer this question, Worldline is inviting fintech companies to collaborate, co-innovate and design new e-payment solutions to unlock the payment possibilities of tomorrow during a 48-hour hackathon.
At Worldline, supporting our people with their career development and company-wide networking is a key element of our HR strategy to attract and retain top talents. This is why we rolled out a brilliant Mentoring program, which pairs an employee with a more experienced person as their mentor.
It is now just six months since PSD2, the EU’s second Payment Services Directive, came in force across Europe, and already, we are starting to see new developments in the way that people pay for products and services.
Adobe is an important American company with a global reputation and reach that notably invented and democratized the PDF format. Its business model is to offer Cloud-based solutions and products for its three divisions: Marketing Cloud, Creative Cloud (including the very popular Photoshop tool) and Document Cloud. The latter division, with whom we are working, offers tools such as Acrobat.
It is only a five-and-a-half-hour ferry journey from Rostock in northern Germany to the southern Swedish coast, or about five hours by car from Hamburg. In terms of payments culture, however, the two countries are worlds apart. Swedes use cash for fewer than 20% of all retail payments. In Germany, cash is used in about 74% of shopping transactions. While Germans hold on average €103 in cash in their wallets, Swedes now even use the popular payment app Swish to give money to buskers, beggars and churches.
ARGENTINA
ASIA PACIFIC
AUSTRIA
BELGIUM
CHINA
CHILE
CZECH REPUBLIC
ESTONIA
FINLAND
FRANCE
GERMANY
HONG KONG, CHINA
INDIA
INDONESIA
ITALY
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBOURG
NETHERLANDS
POLAND
SLOVAKIA
SINGAPORE
SPAIN
TAIWAN, CHINA
UNITED KINGDOM