Jarkko Turunen. Nordic leader @ TietoEVRY. 32/36.

TietoEVRY https://www.tietoevry.com/en/ is a global digital services company with a strong Nordic presence, employing over 24 000 people within many fields of expertise all over the world today. The financial ecosystem is constantly evolving, with new technology creating both exciting opportunities and very real challenges. Within payments, TietoEVRY supplies key software platforms to banks and payment systems across the world, being an essential part in the digital payments infrastructure.

Jarkko Turunen is the Head of Business Development & Product Management at the Payment Solutions division of TietoEVRY, based in Helsinki in Finland. Jarkko has tons of experience from the payments sector as well as the banking industry, and sees convergence between card schemes and real-time payments in the market.

In this interview, Jarkko and Joachim Samuelsson talks about trends in payments, how value-adding services will be key for the payment in the future and how TietoEVRY is present in almost all payment systems in the Nordics. They also talk about synergies between different players in the financial industry and how small companies like Crunchfish with great innovative ideas can make a big market impact.This is interview 32 of 36 in the second season – Cash goes digital, a payment pandemic – out Wednesday morning at 6 am CET / 10.30 am IST. https://www.crunchfish.com/the-interviews/