How to Keep Up with the Global Payments Industry in 2025

Thoughts from 15+ years in the industry and why I'm relaunching this newsletter

If my career had gone to plan would I be writing this?

No but that’s OK. Let me explain.

The world is changing fast, and careers are changing too

Let me take you back to 2020. I’d been working in payments for over a decade and my career was going well. But since then, I’ve experienced a redundancy, a company that I was about to join lost its funding and went under, and I had a job which didn’t work out at all.

When I first started writing this newsletter my original goal was to write a few posts, raise my profile, and help me find work. Once I got a job I’d stop writing. But it didn’t work out like that. I’ve kept going, and kept writing. The perfect job never happened.

So why did I keep writing when it didn’t work as a job-hunting strategy?

What I’ve come to realise is that my writing is actually me trying to make sense of the world.

In today’s world it’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in information. There’s always more to learn, and more that we could know about any given topic. No ma…