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How FinTech is transforming the way money moves around the world: An interview with Mike Laven

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  • Laven, Mike
  • Bruggink, Diederik

    (Head of Innovation and Payments at ESBG, Belgium)

Abstract

In this interview, Mike Laven, CEO of Currency Cloud, describes why FinTech is not going to ‘kill the banks’, and why it is not looking to. Despite the perennial popularity of an ‘us versus them’ debate, that is not an accurate description of the relationship between banks and FinTech innovators. The major issue is that banks are in many cases relying on decades-old IT infrastructure that cannot cope with the modern challenges of today’s banking landscape. Currency Cloud is the perfect example of a company that is benefiting from how new technology is changing the currency markets. Currency Cloud provides its clients with total transparency about what their transfer will actually cost them. The advanced technology allows currency transfers to be priced at a wholesale rate that would not be available to most customers, and also to fully disclose what they are really paying. Currency Cloud is the power inside some of the most exciting businesses in the financial services and FinTech sector. It has over 150 clients who directly use its Payments Engine. In turn, its Payments Engine serves 500,000 end-users, ie, business or consumer customers of its clients.

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  • Laven, Mike & Bruggink, Diederik, 2016. "How FinTech is transforming the way money moves around the world: An interview with Mike Laven," Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 10(1), pages 6-12, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jpss00:y:2016:v:10:i:1:p:6-12
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    1. Yinqiao Li & Renée Spigt & Laurens Swinkels, 2017. "The impact of FinTech start-ups on incumbent retail banks’ share prices," Financial Innovation, Springer;Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, vol. 3(1), pages 1-16, December.
    2. Daniela DAMIAN, 2018. "Freelancing, the solution of employees in the context of the technological revolution," Risk in Contemporary Economy, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, pages 276-280.
    3. Phan, Dinh Hoang Bach & Narayan, Paresh Kumar & Rahman, R. Eki & Hutabarat, Akhis R., 2020. "Do financial technology firms influence bank performance?," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).
    4. Christian Haddad & Lars Hornuf, 2021. "The Impact of Fintech Startups on Financial Institutions' Performance and Default Risk," CESifo Working Paper Series 9050, CESifo.
    5. Trotta, Annarita & Rania, Francesco & Strano, Eugenia, 2024. "Exploring the linkages between FinTech and ESG: A bibliometric perspective," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    6. Isaac Otchere & Zia Mohammed & Witness Simbanegavi, 2025. "Fintech and financial system stability in South Africa," Working Papers 11082, South African Reserve Bank.

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    JEL classification:

    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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