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1 week ago | linkedin.com | Marcel Van Oost

Martina Weimert, CEO of European Payments Initiative (EPI), explains the motivation behind Wero (https://lnkd.in/dYbctu6R), its standout features, and it's roadmap: In an interview with Payments Cards & Mobile, Weimert highlights the following: Wero is a European solution, offering consumers across multiple countries (Belgium, France and Germany for now, followed by the Netherlands and Luxembourg). The ambition of the Wero digital wallet is to offer a European sovereign unified payment solution to address the needs of consumers, professionals and merchants in all European markets. Furthermore, all our shareholders want to bundle their innovation investment in this area of payments so they can create synergies and become more relevant nationally and internationally against global competitors. The roadmap started with Person-to-Person (P2P) payments, launched in 2024 and will follow in 2025 with the launch of 𝗲-𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺-𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀. Wero conducted a successful proof of concept in Germany in December this year: https://lnkd.in/d882At6N Later in 2026 and 2027, Wero will offer 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 (PoS) payments as well as subscriptions management and value-added services. Read all about it in this complete interview article: https://lnkd.in/de8CSmRM Find this helpful? [ 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 ] Anything to add about this subject? [𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁] Nice story, Marcel. Next! [ 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 ] | 19 comments on LinkedIn

1 week ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

"The Responsibility of the Professional Communicator"After my own personal Vietnam War experience (see 'Sunset Playland' ), I was faced with what to do now with the rest of my life. All my disillusions became illusions and vice versa. I was on course to become a geologist. My studies completed, my degree received, barely, I was a poor student. But I persevered and came back to begin a master's program at Utah State University.

1 week ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

Aside from the sophomoric Musk-Trump political nonsense at the White House yesterday, the continuing drama that has the nation and the world enraptured with Netflix-style entertainment, the most significant thing occurred that, to me, is the hallmark of the entire bizarre Trump saga. While meeting with the newly elected German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Trump made one of the stupidest, rudest, most embarrassingly outrageous faux pas I've ever seen.

1 week ago | linkedin.com | Julie Winkle Giulioni

When times get tough, training and development often top the list of budget cuts. But the data tells a different story. This special report (generated with the support of AI) makes the business case for why development remains one of the highest-impact investments organizations can make, even during economic uncertainty.

2 weeks ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

... it's more an attitude than a point of view or opinion (of which my opinion here is mine alone and not necessarily that of LinkedIn or any of its members)At this year's commencement speech at the U.S. Military Academy our President compared himself to Al Capone. "I was investigated more than the great late Alphonse Capone," Trump bragged to the West Point graduates. "Alphonse Capone was a monster. He was a very hardened criminal.