Antigonos Papadopoulos is the Deputy Country Head of Global Payments Greece NBG Pay & EDPS| Managing Director EDPS. He graduated from Deree-American College of Greece with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance. He also holds a Diploma MBA in Marketing from the University of Leicester, as well as an Executive MBA from ALBA-American College of Greece.
He has taken part in training programs on Leadership & High Performance and Strategy Execution at the IMD Business School in Switzerland and has attended numerous Marketing & Management seminars at internationally acknowledged academic institutions, such as Harvard Business School.
He is a renowned executive of the banking industry with national and international experience and specialization in consumer lending, card business and acquiring. More specifically, he had a long and successful career in key positions in Eurobank, such as Commercial Director of Consumer Lending Business Unit at Eurobank Bulgaria Cards, International Sales & Product Development Manager at Eurobank Cards, later as Head of Card Sales & Acquiring in Eurobank Household Lending.
Prior to becoming Cardlink’s CEO, he held, since 2015, the position of the company’s Commercial Director, with notable contributions to the company’s commercial development.
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Discussion Framework: The checkout is becoming a multi-rail environment. Cards will remain deeply embedded, while instant account-to-account payments are moving further into everyday commerce. This discussion will examine how card schemes, instant-payment networks and payment infrastructures are evolving, and how merchants and acquirers will manage multiple rails behind an increasingly seamless checkout.
Central Question: Will cards and A2A compete for the checkout or evolve into complementary rails, dynamically selected according to the customer, merchant and transaction?
