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“Travel solution cards are evolving from payment products into powerful travel companions. Everyday spending can now unlock flights, airport lounges, hotel privileges and experiences around the world. More importantly, travellers have far greater choice in how they earn and use these benefits. TTW’s Top 50 captures this changing relationship between finance, loyalty and travel. From…

Point-of-sale (POS) solutions are moving beyond the checkout, bringing together capabilities that range from inventory management to reconciliation. That expansion has raised the bar for merchants. A UK study of the merchant payments market from Castles Technology identified five factors that most influence POS selection: reliability and performance, ease of use, payment flexibility, integration with…

Fielmann Group CFO Steffen Baetjer discusses global growth, digital transformation, and AI. This article appears in the September 2026 issue of Global Finance Magazine. Steffen Baetjer joined Fielmann Group in 2023. He previously worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey and as CFO at several private equity-backed companies. At Fielmann, he is helping lead the…

Tokenized stocks may be coming to the London Stock Exchange, as Payward, the parent company of Kraken, has announced plans to tokenize the top 100 London-listed equities under its xStocks brand. The offering will bolster the stock exchange’s decision to explore LSE 24, its planned 24-hour trading venue. If regulators approve the arrangement, it could…

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A man looks over the plunging stock market indices at the Nasdaq MarketSite, December 20, 2000, in New York City’s Times Square. Chris Hondros | Hulton Archive | Getty Images While baby boomers hog most of the attention in conversations about retirement, Gen Xers are marching toward the same destination, and in many cases, without…