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Someone once told me that when you get too wrapped up in a problem, unable to see how your behaviour is affecting others – and theirs yours – then the best way to get some perspective is to imagine you’re sitting in the loftiest seats at a theatre, looking down at how events are playing out on the stage below.

Jared Isaacman, the founder and CEO of Shift4, a provider of integrated payment processing and commerce technology, went quite a few steps further. He orbited the Earth for three days last year on the all-civilian Inspiration4 mission. And it gave him a

16 Standard time

This is the year that the majority of the payments industry pins its colours to the ISO 20022 mast.

Marc Recker, Global Head of Product – Institutional Cash Management, Deutsche Bank, says it’s long overdue CRYPTO & BLOCKCHAIN

20 Moving fast to change things

Will crypto come of age in a new era of regulation? Amanda Shoffel, Bitstamp’s Chief Compliance Officer, has high hopes

22 Lessons from the blockchain frontline

Nish Kotecha, Chairman and Co-Founder of Finboot, a blockchain enabler, examines blockchain’s role in the financial sector and what it can learn from other industries different view of the payments business. As part of the Thinking Differently strand at this month’s Money20/20 Europe, Isaacman shares how the so-called ‘overview effect’ that many astronauts experience changed him. Fascinating. We didn’t propel our contributors into space, but they nevertheless came up with some unique perspectives of their own… on the rocket fuel that is ISO 20022; how merchants deal with colliding worlds; and if the stars are finally aligning for crypto! Our last spinetingler was: “Sometimes completely crazy things can happen” by Saudi Arabia’s soccer coach Hervé Renard on beating Argentina!

24 Valley of the crypto kings

SEBA Bank’s Mathias Schütz explains how a medieval fishing village in the foothills of the Alps is helping to lead a decentralised revolution

MERCHANT SERVICES

31 POS and beyond

Steven Stewart from myPOS discusses how smaller businesses and ISVs are benefiting from point-of-sale systems that transform serving customers

34 The new era of transactions

Next-level technology is here – the question is, how do acquirers and merchants use it to their advantage?

Chris Kronenthal, President of FreedomPay, shares his advice

37 Endless POS-ibilities

Martin Herlinghaus, Director of Corporate Development at Aevi, describes how payments orchestration can empower merchants in and out of store

40 Open all hours

Can the battered UK high street enjoy a revival? If merchants embrace hybrid payments, it’ll not just survive but thrive, says Emily Fallon of Tyl by NatWest