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Payments systems visions, strategies, trends, pilots, forecasting, and planning for the short-, medium-, and far-term.
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...
The rise of digital payment systems in Latin America (LATAM) is typically dominated by discussions on the region’s largest markets. Brazil and Mexico feature heavily in this discourse, a reflection of...
For the majority of the payment industry’s history, innovation has been led by multinational payment organizations. Having established a foothold in advanced economies and setting the groundwork for d...
E-commerce has revolutionised the way consumers are able to find and purchase goods and services online. In advanced economies, online transactions have become commonplace, with some businesses even p...