The Paytech Magazine Issue #17

The Paytech Magazine Issue #17 is live! Two forces are dominating finance right now: generative AI and decentralised finance. Adoption is racing ahead, yet trust is lagging. Global sentiment shows people are more concerned than excited about AI, so education, transparency, and design-for-trust are non-negotiable. At Sibos, senior FS leaders literally rolled up sleeves to get closer to the code.

In this issue we also dive in to ebankIT’s conversational banking assistant reshaping U.S. consumer experience for community banks and credit unions, NOTO360’s 10-year evolution in financial crime prevention with co-founder Ivan Stefanov, and Dynamic’s push for mainstream stablecoin adoption, one wallet connection at a time.

Under CEO Akber Jaffer, SmartStream is reframing data, reconciliation, and automation around AI-driven outcomes and faster time-to-value, signalling a broader customer base and deeper impact.

The Swift × Chainlink collaboration to enable institutional DLT for transactions and smart contracts feels like more than a pilot. We examine what interoperability, message standards, and controls must look like for production—and where banks should place their first (or next) on-chain bet. Las Vegas is delivering the show of the year with Money20/20 Las Vegas coming soon as the industry delivered a strategic pivot. Fewer science projects, more shipping products while embedded finance moved up-market, and new revenue models around data and identity are taking centre stage.

Incentives, refunds, and partner rewards become straight-to-card and near-frictionless with Runa’s Pay to Card which is turning payout complexity into a growth lever. Runa maps the strongest use cases and the compliance rails to run them at scale and with 200+ banks on Finastra’s Trade Finance, the next step is an ecosystem that brings retail-like UX to corporates, without losing controls, auditability, or resilience.

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