

“We are slowly but surely losing our digital sovereignty and our digital autonomy. Not because we lack knowledge or innovation, because those are absolutely there, in our companies and in our research institutions. But we are not able to turn that potential into real systems that work at scale.” Europe wants to be digitally ambitious,…

Europe’s future of digital identity and payments will be increasingly connected, they will converge but not always merge, says Claire Deprez-Pipon, Digital Identity Lead at the European Payments Initiative (EPI). Real progress will depend less on turning every identity wallet into a payment wallet and more on orchestrating the complex payment ecosystem through pan-european and…