How Payments Modernisation Will Sustain UK's Fintech Crown
In this FinextraTV interview, Helena Forest, EVP, Global Product & Commercial, Real Time Payments, Visa gives her opinion on the current state of the payments landscape in the UK. Modernisation, regulatory compliance, collaboration and the governments National Payments Vision all feature as reasons to be optimistic.
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