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Friday 29 May
Pedro Pascual
Head of Institutional Sales
What nobody tells you before accepting crypto payments
A practical and forward-looking discussion on what it really takes to work with crypto successfully. Beyond the headlines, we’ll explore how to pay/accept crypto, manage volatility, understand fees, navigate tax and regulatory considerations, and build secure, user-friendly payment flows. The session focuses on turning potential challenges into opportunities—helping businesses confidently integrate crypto payments.
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Oleg Stefanets
Chief Risk Officer
Conversion Killers: Scaling Revenue While Navigating VAMP and Chargeback Thresholds
As fraud and chargeback thresholds tighten under frameworks like VAMP, growth becomes harder to sustain. Small increases in disputes or fraud rates can limit approvals and trigger monitoring programmes.
This session focuses on how to protect conversion while staying within thresholds — using better routing, real-time visibility, and smarter dispute management to scale revenue without increasing risk.
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George Adamides
Director
The New Crypto Tax Framework in Cyprus
The session will focus on:
• How crypto-related activity affects banking relationships and PSP onboarding
• The compliance expectations banks and regulators actually apply in practice
• Common structuring and reporting mistakes that lead to frozen accounts or rejected onboarding
• How businesses can benefit from a stable and predictable flat-tax environment within the EU, and how this stability can enhance credibility, access to markets, and long-term operability — outcomes that are currently most efficiently achieved through a Cyprus presence
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Karin Milková
Chief Commercial Officer
The Rise of European Schemes
European payment schemes are rapidly transforming the digital payments ecosystem. Once dominated by global card networks, the market is now shifting toward mobile-first, bank-backed local payment methods with soaring adoption rates. This session explores the rise of leading European schemes, their strengths, limitations, and the impact of new entrants. We will examine the emergence of Wero as a potential pan-European solution, the challenges of interoperability, and the growing fragmentation driven by national initiatives. Participants will gain insight into the strategic forces shaping the future of European e-commerce payments.
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