APSP, the Payment Service Providers Association and Assofintech, the Italian Association of Fintech and Insurtech Portals, which represents fintech and insurtech companies in Italy, have signed a framework of collaboration on issues of common interest and in particular in the promotion of activities to stimulate the diffusion of the culture of innovation and the growth of the digital economy.
The agreement, signed by Maurizio Pimpinella and Fabio Brambilla, respectively presidents of APSP and Assofintech, has a three-year duration and provides, among other things, that the two associations:
- promote and stimulate seminars, debates, meetings and any other initiative on all subjects that can form the object of developing digital culture as a factor of economic growth;
- design and implement editorial initiatives useful for disseminating the common activities carried out in the fields of interest;
- establish any appropriate relationship with the competent authorities on specific topics for the development of an ecosystem conducive to the adoption of new technologies and new models in the financial and insurance sectors;
- organize specialized training courses, in relation to politics, economics, technologies and all disciplines that can contribute to the improvement of knowledge on fintech and insurtech matters;
- develop joint projects of a social, economic, scientific and technological nature, also commissioned by third parties.
"The Italian Association of Payment Service Providers - reads a note - was created with the aim of promoting the development, information and knowledge of electronic money and more generally of all payment service providers, promoting the 'activities of a cultural nature connected to them through round tables, conventions and conferences'.
