About

Comprised of two separate publications, the newly named Digital and 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 and Card Payment Yearbook covers the EU27 countries plus Iceland, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

The Eurasian Digital and 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: Victoria Conroy

Statistics: Amanda Balding

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.

Editor: Victoria Conroy
Victoria is a financial technology and payments journalist, who has covered the payments sector for over 15 years. She has contributed to several publications including PCM, along with producing research and reports covering fintech innovations and payment trends for clients including Barclays, Mastercard, Visa and ICBC. 

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