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Payments systems visions, strategies, trends, pilots, forecasting, and planning for the short-, medium-, and far-term.
The European Commission’s draft EU law to regulate instant payment (IP) services has arrived. It’s a development we’ve all been expecting, yet earlier than planned. The intervention and early publicat...
Pay-by-Bank solutions are suddenly the fashion in the payments world. Solutions are available from HSBC, JP Morgan, Barclays, JP Morgan, Mastercard and World Pay to name a few. How do they work and do...
In the last two years, there has been a considerable change in payments. The rapid digital transformation that Covid caused across all industries has been particularly evident in payments as supportin...
September 2022 will be remembered as an era of profound change for the UK. At the beginning of the month, Liz Truss was officially appointed the UK’s prime minister, who is now responsible for leading...
The volume and efficiency of cross-border payments have increased considerably over the past decade. Figures from Statista show that, in 2018, $124 trillion US dollars in cross-border payments were ma...
There are more chances that you might have faced with that famous question when you stand in front of a supermarket till for making a payment - Cash or Card? well, there is going to be a possible 3rd ...
The global cost of payment fraud It is estimated that online payment fraud cost the global business economy over 16 billion pounds in 2021. With the shift from physical to digital as a result of the C...
The gaming industry is booming, and Asia is its centre. But it’s also becoming more competitive. And with payments increasingly being baked into the player experience, getting this fundamental element...
The payments industry had been dealing with a series of rolling crises, tectonic shifts in the global financial system, before the world’s central banks sounded the alarm on stagflation. It feels like...
Across all walks of life, one thing that brings people together is the fact that we all have bills to pay. When it comes to business owners, the nature and quantity of those bills becomes more difficu...
Over the last two years, PaaS (Payment-as-a-Service) providers have entered the market at an increasingly rapid pace. As PaaS expands its breadth of cloud-based services to the payment value chain, th...