Feb. 6-8 2013 – CICG, Geneva, Switzerland

Payments 101: Commerce in the Digital Economy

Thu, Feb. 07 2013 - 11:30
Room 23 (level 0)

From beads to coins, cheques to cards, digital wallets to virtual currencies: human ingenuity and technology have helped people across time and space to trade and commerce.

Today, this deeply human need is enabled via a complex payment ecosystem that is largely hidden to the layman. We will explore how technology has digitized cash, evolved payment options and created a plethora of innovative business models to adapt and thrive in the digital economy. Entrepreneurs, engineers, designers and investors will learn how identify the hallmarks of monetisable digital payment businesses.