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Payments systems visions, strategies, trends, pilots, forecasting, and planning for the short-, medium-, and far-term.
Data is an increasingly important part of the payment industry. It is collected, analyzed, and used at various points during a payment transaction, and plays a vital role in making sure the payment re...
The move from analogue to digital, already accelerated by Covid-19, will continue apace in 2021. The key factors driving this include: cultural change, growing regulation, cloud uptake and an increase...
Due to the Covid crisis and the resulting increase of working from home (which will likely persist long after the crisis), the precious tradition (wide-spread in many companies) of collecting money fo...
The payments industry is experiencing significant disruption because of rapid technological change, increasingly diverse consumer demands, and new entrants all competing for the consumer’s loyalties. ...
Chargebacks have existed since the early days of distance selling – the predecessor of e-commerce. Mail-in catalogues and Avon ladies were some of the earliest ways consumers could purchase products a...
The payments system is no stranger to regulations, but PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2) is given additional importance due to its impact and a new generation’s expectations. However, in this new di...
Any chief technology officer (CTO), in any financial institution big or small will tell you that the challenges in payment processing are the same. After all, a payment is a payment and people want th...
Global trends, changing business models and innovations pose new challenges for the world of payment transactions. New payment providers simplify payment processes and seemingly threat the existing ec...
The spectral technologies in mid of 2030s such as THz communication, molecular communication and quantum communication will dramatically improve the data rate. The blockchain will become an important ...
No one has been spared the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disrupted the jobs of millions of people across the world, prompting all businesses to rethink and adapt its strategy, ways of wor...
Retailers have been wrestling for months with the effects of COVID-19 — scattered workforces required to work from home, closed brick-and-mortar stores, dramatic spikes in online sales. And now, as th...
The global payments landscape is undergoing a dramatic evolution. Everything from IoT-enabled payment technology to AI, machine learning, and APIs are changing the way people can — and want to — pay....