La Crème de la Crème - December 2025

The Studio Report - Ep. 6

Payment Centrality, conservative reflex?  In this month’s memo: * The Franco-German Dream: Why the Rome-Berlin axis just killed Wero's pan-European ambition. * Wero's Real Problem: How a centralised vision met a continent that has refused centralisation for seventy years. * Patriotism vs Sovereignty: Two words the payments industry uses interchangeably. They are not the same thing

The Studio Report - Ep. 5

Let's stop building 18-billion-euro roundabouts. In this month’s memo: * The "Expert" Trap: Why technocracy is blinding the payment industry. * Baudrillard & AI: Why cold data will never replace human symbolism. * The Digital Euro Resentment: How a "just-in-case" project became a weapon for political division.

The Studio Report - Ep. 4

La Crème de la Crème is dead, Vive le Studio Report ! This month, I will give you the reason behind the pivot:  * The Sovereign Choice: Why I host, design, and maintain my own infrastructure away from LinkedIn and Substack. * Legibility over Hubris: Reorganizing a year of research, podcasts, and essays into a coherent destination. * The "Anti-Sponsorship" Manifesto: Why I’m opening my library for free instead of selling your attention to sponsors. * Actionable Insights: How the new "Pre-diag tools" will help you think about sovereignty without the paywalls.

La Crème de la Crème - December 2025

Welcome to this third edition of La Crème de la Crème! My monthly audio companion to my LinkedIn newsletter [https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/spill-the-tea-on-payment-7280961977936482305] In this second episode, we will talk about two big announcements :  * Unified Commerce illusion and Case Study (Again)  * My 2025 retrospective: Spilling my tea Have a wonderful end of year, festive season and see you in 2026 (with a case study HAHA) 🔗 Links to the related articles and posts mentioned: First blog post of The Unified Commerce illusion: Crisis in Retail: how Payments took advantage of it. [https://spillthetp.com/crisis-in-retail-payments-took-advantage/] Second blog post of The Unified Commerce illusion: Omnichannel Is a Governance Problem, Not a Customer Journey [https://spillthetp.com/omnichannel-is-a-governance-problem/] Third blog post of The Unified Commerce illusion: When China Unified Commerce for Real [https://spillthetp.com/when-china-unified-commerce-for-real/] Sign up link to the new newsletter platform [https://spillthetp.beehiiv.com/?modal=signup] (migration ends in March from Linked'in)

La Crème de la Crème - November 2025

Welcome to this second edition of La Crème de la Crème! My monthly audio companion to my LinkedIn newsletter [https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/spill-the-tea-on-payment-7280961977936482305] In this second episode, we will talk about two big announcements :  * The migration of my newsletter from LinkedIn to a new platform: same structure but more interactions  * The launch of a new editiorial arc: The Unified Commerce illusion.  🎧 This audio format is light, human, and designed to offer a more personal perspective than what you read online.  🔗 Links to the related articles and posts mentioned: First blog post of The Unified Commerce illusion : Crisis in Retail: how Payments took advantage of it. [https://spillthetp.com/crisis-in-retail-payments-took-advantage/] Sign up link to the new newsletter platform [https://spillthetp.beehiiv.com/?modal=signup]