President of Asia-Pacific, Adyen
Search every verified Warren Hayashi interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Warren Hayashi, President of Asia-Pacific at Adyen, has discussed the role of digital payments in driving financial inclusion, particularly in Africa, where he described a "marriage between the bank, the fintechs, and the agent network" as a unique factor in the region's adoption of digital payments. He stated that "the ubiquity of mobile connectivity is so important to drive digital" and emphasized the need for education and engagement at the grassroots level to bring consumers onto digital platforms. Hayashi also said that "necessity is the mother of invention" and that societies can become "far more prosperous" when finance is available and money can move efficiently, adding that governments can "learn best practices from another government." In earlier interviews, Hayashi discussed the fragmented payments landscape in Asia-Pacific, noting that consumer payment preferences vary widely across countries Pythagoras. He stated that Adyen integrates not only major credit card brands but also local methods such as Alipay, WeChat Pay, and UnionPay, as well as ATM and online banking options. He described the future of payments as "unified commerce," where retailers no longer think in terms of pure online or pure in-store, and said that "the consumer is expecting more now" as they move between channels. Hayashi also commented on millennial shopping habits, citing research that 50 percent of millennials prefer an in-store experience as part of their shopping routine.
“Africa is kind of ahead of most of the other world in terms of digital payments, and one of the unique reasons for that is that it's a marriage between the bank which is the regulated entity, the fintechs which keep coming up with newer solutions, then our partners the agent network.”
“The ubiquity of mobile connectivity is so important to drive digital — once they are on a digital platform it's engaging for them, they can help drive their needs as a consumer.”
“How do you have somebody far off in the far off areas as an agent work with the end consumer, how do you educate them — that's where a lot of the engagement with society at the grassroots level comes in.”
“When you put all of this together it works and the impact is phenomenal — all these things come together in terms of creating the solution, giving the consumers the ability and tools to use them and then replicating that in others.”
“This is one where governments are really left to learn best practices from another government.”
“What's very important is to make sure that finance is available, money can move efficiently — necessity is the mother of invention; we have invented so many solutions, we are ahead of the curve and I think we're going to have a society that's far more prosperous because finance is what keeps the wheels of the economy g...”
“I now see many more entrepreneurs feel that they can build a company out of Europe with global ambitions.”
“If you look at how we build our company, the diverse region where we were fully licensed as a bank was Europe, and we see that it brings operational involvement on a local basis to develop more products.”
“We felt that we can outperform Wall Street and that it was a logical choice to live for that in the US.”
“Having a license overnight, nothing will change that has operational advantages.”
“The price earnings ratio of 223 implies an awful lot of expectation about what your business can ultimately deliver.”
“The tailwinds which are with the move from cash to cashless that the pandemic has led to more speed in trends.”
“By 2020 there's about 400 million people in ASEAN that's considered middle class and they're projected to spend about 2.3 trillion dollars in retail, so a lot of not just local retailers are looking at the opportunity here.”
“We work with some of the fastest-growing companies in the world, Facebook, Spotify, the Netflix of the world, introducing them to payments here locally and having them reach out to their consumers here locally.”
“The opportunity is not in terms of whether it's credit card, debit cards, mobile wallets; it's really around all the different payment methods that's outside of cash. It's really trying to remove cash out of the system.”
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