About This Episode
In this episode of the Leaders in Payments and Fintech podcast, Jerome Traisnel, CEO and founder of SlimPay, discusses his extensive journey and insights in the fintech and payments industry. The conversation delves into the evolution of SlimPay, the first payment service provider focused exclusively on recurring payments, and its role in the rise of the subscription economy. Highlights include Jerome's background in engineering and marketing, his early ventures in mobile technology with Freever, and SlimPay's recent partnership with Trustly to set new standards for recurring payments across Europe and the UK. The episode also explores the challenges and strategies in scaling a fintech company, regulatory impacts, and the future landscape of payments and subscription services globally.
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Jerome graduated with a Master of Science in Marketing and Management from ESSEC after an engineering degree at the INP in Grenoble.
After an international career at Texas Instruments then Schlumberger Smart Cards (which became Gemalto then Thales), he founded Freever in 1999, a specialist in value-added services around mobile text messaging, the first social network on mobile phones in Europe. He founded SlimPay in 2009, the first approved payment institution in France, and the first payment service provider to focus exclusively on recurring payments, the driving force behind the emergence of the subscription economy.
SlimPay joined forces with Trustly in 2023, a global payment method, to set a new standard in recurring payments for merchants and consumers across Europe and the UK.
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Pascal is a Director in the Paris office and heads up the Travel Payments Practice for EDC. Pascal has worked across four EDC offices (London, Sydney, San Francisco, Paris), has over 25 years of consulting experience, and four years of line management experience in financial services in the UK. Pascal leads consulting projects across the main segments of EDC’s clients including payment networks, banks, large merchants, payment technology providers and other clients such as central banks and investors. Pascal holds an MBA from Lancaster University and a business degree from EM Lyon. Outside of work, Pascal is a keen cyclist and Arsenal supporter.
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