Client perspectives

Equens' clients on interesting topics

What are the perspectives of our clients and partners? On this page you will find qoutes taken from 'EQ', the Equens magazine in which banks, authorities and other insiders in the European payments market share their views and insights on relevant topics.

DZ Bank - Dr Niklas Bartelt

Push the limits
"Optimising payments is always about making a trade-off between security, speed & ease of use, and costs," stresses Dr Niklas Bartelt, Director of Product Management Cards & Payments at DZ Bank in Frankfurt. "And the banks will allways endeavour to push the limits. What used to take hours now takes minutes. In a hundred years' time, the same things will be happening in nanoseconds. So we need to maintain the mindset that this is an ongoing development."

ICBPI - Mr. Domenico Santececca

Inspiring flexibility
Market competitiveness depends on the ability to offer our clients economies of scale, efficiency and innovative solutions.

KBC - Ms. Kristine De Lepeleire

SEPA Front runner
At KBC we made major investments in order to be ready for SEPA early. At the start, we were the first bank in Belgium to have all the front-end channels ready for the customer.

SEB - Mr. Magnus Folkesson

SEPA is our stepping stone
"Historically, we have built a lot ourselves. But nowadays SEB's strategy for back-office systems is 'buy for parity, build for edge'. In the future we will try to decrease the number of systems that we build ourselves, and outsource or buy wherever this is feasible" says Magnus Folkesson (Global Head of Development, SEB Payment Operations).