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Payments systems visions, strategies, trends, pilots, forecasting, and planning for the short-, medium-, and far-term.
Covid ushered new changes that are to stay- and that includes QR codes as a form of payment method. Contact tracing requirements, coupled with worries about viral contamination through the handling o...
Handling cash flows has always been key to businesses’ survival. However, walking the path with numerous customers, partners, merchants, and vendors every single day of a year is challenging. Often,
Increased internal fraud. The effects of COVID-19 on the world of business are still being felt across many companies. The change to work from home has been a difficult and contentious decision for ma...
The global B2B payments landscape has undergone a metamorphosis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, beyond a predictable decline in cash usage and shifting preferences towards electronic and e-comme...
Boarding new merchants from a sales perspective is both an art and a science. The art of sales is a well-trodden field with numerous different approaches. We see it in every industry with experts impa...
The travel industry is showing signs of a rebound in leisure travel with restored optimism after the easing of some lockdown restrictions and the rollout of vaccines across the globe. But the industry...
False declines hurt everyone involved in the payment process; here’s how smart payments routing can offer a solution E-commerce is exploding due to the pandemic; as sales grow, so does fraud. One solu...
It’s been reported recently that £4m is stolen every day by fraudsters in the UK. That’s a lot of money even by today’s highly inflated standards. Isn’t it time to ask the difficult question - are ban...
The global pandemic continues to have a severe impact on many businesses. Since the first lockdown, nearly 200,000 jobs have been lost in the retail sector alone. There looks to be few signs that this...
Major transformations in payments and settlements have occurred in generations. The first generation was paper-based. Delivery times for payment instruments took several days domestically and weeks in...
It has been a decade since I first embarked on my journey down the payments rabbit hole. Since then, the predicted disruption of payments as we know it has proven to be more of an evolution than a re
Everyone wants the transaction to happen Online payments are evolving toward ensuring every card-not-present (CNP) transaction is a dependable, secure, and seamless experience for the customer. And ri...