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About

About

Payments Cards & Mobile, the industry leader in payments and banking intelligence, is proud to announce the launch of its new Digital and Card Payment Yearbook Research Platform, an advanced online hub offering unprecedented access to comprehensive data and market analysis across 43 countries in Europe and Eurasia.

Comprised of two separate publications, the Digital & Card Payment Yearbooks still provide the most comprehensive and authoritative review of the entire payment market – an outstanding resource for all payments specialists:

The European Digital & Card Payment Yearbook covers the EU27 countries plus Iceland, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

The Eurasian Digital & Card Payment Yearbook covers Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

STAFF

Publisher: Alex Rolfe

Principal: Horst Foerster

Editor: Oluwadara Olunuga

Statistics: Oluwadara Olunuga & Amanda Balding

Proof Reading & Legal Review: Chloe Haywood

Web Development: Adam Unsworth

Research: Horst Foerster
Since 2011, Horst is co-editor and has been responsible for market analysis and for compiling/writing the country profiles. Horst both has expertise in card business and in e-/m-payments since 1996. Cross business and cross borders – his profession is business development and market intelligence support for the Payment Industries.

Research & Editor: Oluwadara Olunuga
Oluwadara is co-editor and has been responsible for market analysis and for compiling/writing the country profiles. She is a CFA Charter holder and a second-year MBA student at the London Business School. She has more than 5 years Analyst experience, researching and writing about the Financial Services sector. She has a stint experience in the Strategic Finance team at American Express and has contributed to several publications including Industry reports and PCM.

Statistics: Amanda Balding
Amanda has been responsible for the key task of researching and compiling Yearbook tables. She has a BSc degree in statistics from the UK Open University.

Other Publications

Payments is vast, growing and ever-changing. To survive and thrive in this challenging, but opportunity-packed sector, you need to keep your finger on the pulse of developing trends, technologies and high-impact initiatives.

Payments Cards & Mobile cuts through the noise delivering in-depth reports, white papers and analysis, industry insights, breaking news and authoritative features.

Payments Cards & Mobile’s high calibre writers and researchers have years’ of hands-on experience across the payments, banking, FinTech and retail industries. This skilled team provide the perfect combination of expert journalism and industry analysis; getting to the heart of the issues shaping the future of payments.

Leveraging 20 years of data across 43 markets, our resources, expertise and approach make us the go-to market intelligence hub for senior payments professionals across the entire global ecosystem.

Published Titles

Payments Cards & Mobile magazine

Our flagship publication, Payments Cards & Mobile magazine is published six times per year in hard copy and online. We dig deep into stories and research key issues to bring our subscribers content of unmatched quality, detail and depth.

We avoid the noise created by ‘churn and burn’ journalism; bringing you only the best hand-picked headline stories, valuable research and practical analysis on the issues shaping the future of payments.

www.paymentscardsandmobile.com

Payments Guide

Our annual guide to payments products and services spans the complete payments value chain – from issuing and acquiring, to emerging technology providers and specialist consultancy services.

www.thepaymentsguide.com

Payments Cards & Mobile Research:

Payments Cards & Mobile Research offers a range of specialist industry research services and resources, including:

  • Our industry leading Digital and Card Payment Yearbook containing detailed data and analysis on 43 countries in Europe and Eurasia
  • Bespoke research projects on specialist topics and markets.
  • Commissioned whitepapers and insight reports.

 

Payments Cards & Mobile Consulting:

Payments Cards & Mobile has a long history in the banking, payments and FinTech sectors. We leverage this experience to help our clients navigate the key challenges and opportunities their businesses face.

Our clients include financial services companies, technology providers, telecomms operators, corporates, merchants and government organisations.

By bringing our unique expertise to both strategic and operational projects, we can make a powerful, positive difference to our clients’ futures.

For further information please contact Alex Rolfe