Gijs Boudewijn on sovereignty and international interoperability
Gijs Boudewijn, Director of the Dutch Payments Association, was a guest at the 6th International Conference of Regional Card Schemes & Retail Financial Market in Amsterdam in October. The conference focused on changes and innovations in regional payment infrastructures.

Participants at the 6th International Conference of Regional Card Schemes & Retail Financial Market
Gijs Boudewijn moderated the conference round-table discussion on experiences from Europe. He raised several questions: How important is sovereignty in payments, and how easy is it to achieve? Do globalisation and the need for interoperability work against that sovereignty?
The other round-table participants were Céu Pereira (European Commission ), Martina Weimert (European Payments Initiative ), Anni Mykkänen (European Banking Federation ) and Regis Folbaum (La Banque Postale ).
Watch the round-table discussion moderated by Gijs Boudewijn:
The Dutch Payments Association coordinates various changes and innovations in the Netherlands’ regional payment infrastructures.
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