OpenWay has chosen Il Salone Dei Pagamenti - Payvolution 2017 to present itself to the Italian market. Sophocles Ioannou, Regional Manager - Mediterranean & Levant OpenWay explains the strategies and the offer designed to establish itself in a rapidly changing sector.
Interview by Maddalena Libertini and Flavio Padovan, Bancaforte
Sophocles Ioannou is Regional Director, New Business Development at OpenWay. Sophocles manages a full portfolio overseeing business management in Europe and Latin America. He has over 25 years of experience in managing some of the most complex customer solutions for card issuing, merchant acquiring, payment switching and digital wallets. This involves managing various lines of interest, multiple decision layers and complex commercial models, and making sound decisions in a fast-paced and complex environment. He is instrumental in OpenWay Group's activities around the globe and a key contributor to OpenWay’s impeccable reputation in the payment industry.
OpenWay is the only best-in-class provider of digital payment software solutions for card issuing, digital wallets, merchant acquiring, BNPL, transaction switching, tokenization, and fleet payments, and the best cloud payment systems provider as rated by Gartner, Aite (Datos Insights), Ovum (Omdia), Juniper Research, and PayTech. Top-tier banks and processors, as well as ambitious fintech startups, have chosen OpenWay as their strategic partner. With its unique capabilities in card issuing, BNPL, merchant acquiring, transaction switching, digital wallets, and fleet payments, the Way4 software platform guarantees an unparalleled customer payment experience.