We invited Piet Mallekoote last week to talk about why Europe needs a CBDC. Despite being a retired payments veteran, he remains active in the wonderful world of payments. As a member of the Digital Euro Market Advisory Group at the European Central Bank, he is closely involved in the…

For a change, we didn’t talk about banking that much. Instead, we invited Klaas Van Imschoot, co-founder of b-Fine, to share some insights on his life as an entrepreneur. b-Fine is a Regtech company founded around the same time as The Banking Scene, in 2017, and was sold in late…

ChatGPT took the world by storm at the end of 2022. The tool convinced 5 million people in only five days to test the new chatbot. Technology influencers worldwide left the metaverse and NFTs to explain to everyone how game-changing ChatGPT was and how fundamental this is for the evolution…

To better understand today’s challenges in the omnichannel bank experience, we spoke to Mark Aldred, VP of International Sales at our Corporate Member Auriga. He explained to us the role that technology plays in future-proofing a bank’s branch network and how all this interacts with digital channels. Also he shared…

De Morgen recently published an article stating that 4 out of 10 Belgian citizens risk running out of money at the end of the month. That is enormous. Belgium is not alone in this problem, a problem that will only grow in the coming years. JP Morgan, for example, found…