Ram Rastogi, a digital payments pioneer from India. Ram started his payments career in 1980 with India’s largest bank, State Bank of India https://www.onlinesbi.com/, which was a founding partner in National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI) https://www.npci.org.in/, where Ram worked with product management and instant payment services for 10 years. Now he is a senior consultant working with multiple organizations in the Indian market as well as internationally. Ram recognized the great potential of Crunchfish’s two-tier settlement architecture, offline vs. online, very early and was willing to put his good name behind our solution and describe it to his 47 000 LinkedIn followers. He is an important influencer providing frequent and insightful news about the fast-moving payments market in India.

Here are two links from Ram’s newsletter and LinkedIn posts that was discussed in the interview. First a link where Ram’s promotes Crunchfish two-tier settlement architecture: https://bit.ly/3nzBmF6 , followed by a post where VISA experiments with very much the same architecture for Central Bank Digital Currency, CBDC as we promote. https://bit.ly/2K3E0p7

This is interview 13 of 36 in the second season – Cash goes digital, a payment pandemic. https://lnkd.in/e5RHAYD

Crunchfish says that digital cash is an innovation that will change the way we pay. But what do the payment experts think? It’s time to find out and in the coming weeks we will be hearing what experienced payment experts think. Payment experts. Cash goes digital – a payment pandemic. Week 5 of 12.  On […]

Crunchfish says that digital cash is an innovation that will change the way we pay. But what do the payment experts think? It’s time to find out and in the coming weeks we will be hearing what experienced payment experts think.

Payment experts. Cash goes digital – a payment pandemic. Week 5 of 12. 

On Monday, January 11, we will start the week with an interview with Ram Rastogi, an Indian payment expert who began his career in 1980 at the State Bank of India, India’s largest bank, and who also worked 10 years at NPCI.

Then we invite Bengt Nilervall, payment expert at Svensk Handel who promotes innovation and better payment solutions for Swedish merchants.

Finally we’ll be interviewing Patrik Centellini, an experienced payment consultant from TietoEvry and who previously worked at Bankgirot, leader in Swedish settlement of digital payments.

The interviews during the fifth interview week will be available via the links below:
Ram Rastogi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlueAsJhs6Q

Bengt Nilervall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPNcW0CJiec

Patrik Centellini:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4oDZ3ExIcg

During the coming weeks, we will be interviewing payment experts from different types of payment schemes and also have a theme week about payment security. The episodes in the interview series “Cash goes digital – a payment pandemic” are published every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 06:00 CET / 10:30 IST on Crunchfish’s website and our YouTube channel. The first season, “Swimmingly easy payments”, which aired during the spring of 2020 is also available here.

For more information, please contact:
Joachim Samuelsson, CEO Crunchfish AB
+46 708 46 47 88
joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com

Ulf Rogius Svensson, IR & Marketing Manager
+46 733 26 81 05
ulf.rogius.svensson@crunchfish.com

Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser. Email: ca@vhcorp.se. Telephone +46 40 200 250.

About Crunchfish – crunchfish.com
Crunchfish is a tech company with patent-pending solutions for digital cash that can be integrated with both the payment rail and in mobile wallets. The solutions are globally scalable and makes digital payments more robust as the risks of disruptions and downtime are eliminated. We have also developed Blippit, an app terminal that connects to cash register systems for both online and offline payments, and have a patent-pending solution to reduce food waste. Crunchfish also develops gesture control of smart AR glasses for the consumer market. Crunchfish is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with representation in India.

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Crunchfish menar att digitala kontanter är en innovation som kommer att förändra vårt sätt att betala. Men vad tycker betalningsexperterna? Det är hög tid att undersöka och i de kommande veckorna undersöker vi vad erfarna betalexperter tycker.

Payment experts. Cash goes digital – a payment pandemic. Week 5 of 12.

På måndag den 11 januari inleder vi veckan med en intervju med Ram Rastogi, indisk betalningsexpert som började sin karriär 1980 på State Bank of India, Indiens största bank och även 10 år på NPCI.

Därefter bjuder vi in Bengt Nilervall, betalexpert på Svensk Handel som främjar innovation och bättre betalningslösningar för svenska företagare.

Avslutningsvis intervjuas Patrik Centellini, en erfaren betalningskonsult från TietoEvry och som tidigare jobbat på Bankgirot, ledande inom svensk avveckling av digitala betalningar.

Intervjuerna under femte intervjuveckan kommer att finnas tillgängliga via nedanstående länkar:
Ram Rastogi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlueAsJhs6Q  

Bengt Nilervall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPNcW0CJiec   

Patrik Centellini: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4oDZ3ExIcg

I kommande veckor kommer vi därefter att intervjua betalexperter från olika typer av betalningslösningar och även ha en temavecka kring säkerheten inom betalning. Avsnitten i intervjuserien ”Cash goes digital – a payment pandemic” publiceras varje måndag, onsdag och fredag klockan 06:00 på Crunchfishs hemsida och vår YouTube-kanal. Den första säsongen, ”Swimmingly easy payments”, som sändes under våren 2020, finns också tillgänglig här.

För ytterligare information, vänligen kontakta:
Joachim Samuelsson, VD för Crunchfish AB
+46 708 46 47 88
joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com

Ulf Rogius Svensson, IR & Marketing Manager
+46 733 26 81 05
ulf.rogius.svensson@crunchfish.com

Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB är Certified Adviser. Epost: ca@vhcorp.se. Telefon +46 40 200 250.

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Crunchfish AB (“Crunchfish”) announces that Dhruv Singh, currently working as a business developer for our team in India, has been appointed as new business manager for Crunchfish’s Nearby solutions. In this business area, Crunchfish has developed its tech to show how a mobile phone can be used to discover and communicate with everything and everyone […]

Crunchfish AB (“Crunchfish”) announces that Dhruv Singh, currently working as a business developer for our team in India, has been appointed as new business manager for Crunchfish’s Nearby solutions. In this business area, Crunchfish has developed its tech to show how a mobile phone can be used to discover and communicate with everything and everyone within a certain proximity, and take advantage of the fact that the mobile phone is mobile and not stationary. Crunchfish has 14 patent pending inventions in the field of which 12 have been granted. Dhruv Singh assumes his new position with immediate effect.

“Since Dhruv started working for Crunchfish, he has been working hard with business development in the Indian market, in addition to acting as one of our top models. He has shown a good ability in finding new business opportunities and therefore we have now given him the opportunity to further develop our Nearby solutions. This is an area where we have advanced solutions for how a mobile phone can be used in social contexts to discover and communicate with other people. For example, they can be linked to dating apps in order to find other singles at nightclubs, or to career sites in order to find purchasing managers at a major trade show – they are simply giving the user superpowers to understand much more about the environment than what is possible with the human senses. With Dhruv’s ability to find new business opportunities in the Indian market, we see great potential in Nearby”, says Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish.

For more information, please contact:
Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish
+46 708 46 47 88
joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com

Ulf Rogius Svensson, IR & Marketing Manager
+46 733 26 81 05
ulf.rogius.svensson@crunchfish.com

Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser. Email: ca@vhcorp.se. Telephone +46 40 200 250.

About Crunchfish – crunchfish.com
Crunchfish is a tech company with patent-pending solutions for digital cash that can be integrated with both the payment rail and in mobile wallets. The solutions are globally scalable and makes digital payments more robust as the risks of disruptions and downtime are eliminated. We have also developed Blippit, an app terminal that connects to cash register systems for both online and offline payments, and have a patent-pending solution to reduce food waste. Crunchfish also develops gesture control of smart AR glasses for the consumer market. Crunchfish is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with representation in India.

In the third and final interview during the India week, meet Dhruv Singh, our Indian top model, world famous from several photos in our financial reports, on our website and product presentations. Dhruv is also working on several of our business opportunities in India as well as currently helping us produce more marketing photos with an Indian flair!

This is interview 6 of 36 in the second season – Cash goes digital, a payment pandemic – out Friday morning 6 am CET/10.30 am IST. https://lnkd.in/e5RHAYD

The theme for this week is India and our CEO Joachim Samuelsson talks to Gagan Kochar, our Indian payment professional. They discuss how the payment market in India is currently undergoing a fundamental change, how Crunchfish will fit into this shift, Blue Ocean Strategy – and of course the virtues of Sikhism!

Want to know more about the Blue Ocean Strategy and standing apart from the competition? Check out https://lnkd.in/gyrVsMn!

This is interview 5 of 36 in the second season – Cash goes digital, a payment pandemic – out Wednesday morning 6 am CET / 10.30
am IST. Tune in! https://lnkd.in/e5RHAYD