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The future of Payments in Europe

With an increase in regulations and growing involvement from multiple players, the world of payments is undergoing a disruption across the region

René Hendrikse

René Hendrikse Vice President & Managing Director, EMEA & LATAM at Mitek

Lockdown 3.0 shopping: building trust with customers

While the Christmas rush may be over, with 51.3m transactions recorded by the Post Office in December, the arrival of Lockdown 3.0 means online shopping will continue to be on the rise yet again. As non-essential shops remain closed, older generations, the vulnerable, working parents, and many more will turn to online spending. Retailers and busin...

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Nearing the Deadline: How are stakeholders preparing for the launch of SCA?

One of the most prominent issues keeping stakeholders in the payments industry busy at the moment is Strong Customer Authentication, or SCA, the new European security standard that intends to protect consumers and businesses from fraud by making it more difficult for a fraudster to make payments from their accounts. After several delays SCA is due...

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Arnaud Crouzet

Arnaud Crouzet Vice President, Business Consulting at Consult Hyperion

A new vision of payments: What is the European Payments Initiative?

The newly-established European Payments Initiative promises a new vision of payments. Innovative use cases will be made available to consumers across Europe for the first time. There’s strong backing for the project already among financial institutions and the European Central Bank, making it likely to succeed. With the first phase due to start in...

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Why PSPs must do more to boost social-media payments

Purchasing items on social media is a growing international trend with huge potential. During the COVID-19 crisis, 42% of people in an international Global Web Index survey reported spending a greater amount of time on the likes of Facebook and Instagram. And with social distancing continuing for months, that trend is likely to continue. Accordin...

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Laura Francis

Laura Francis Head of Brand and Marketing at Form3

The future of payments is in the cloud

Why now is the time to move away from legacy payments infrastructure Technology is moving at a remarkable pace – by the time something has been built and launched it already feels outdated. So it may come as a surprise that many European banks are still using systems originally implemented several decades ago. The introduction of open banking (PSD2...

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Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

A gift voucher - It’s all about the story telling

In a time of real-time, instant payments, it is strange to see that companies providing pre-paid gift vouchers are still massively being created and continue to grow. At first sight buying such a gift voucher has only disadvantages, as it converts liquid currency to a product, with less favorable qualities (i.e. can only be consumed in certain shop...

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Ron Delnevo

Ron Delnevo Chair at UK Cash Supply Alliance

Cash: The Comeback-Kid?

There is much speculation about the extent of the comeback cash will make after the latest pandemic is behind us. To be fair, cash has had a bit of a tough ride. Lockdowns impacting more than half the worlds population have lured people into the clutches of internet shopping - and, as we all know, paying by cash on the internet is a bit tricky! On...

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Laura Francis

Laura Francis Head of Brand and Marketing at Form3

SME Challenges in Cross Border payments

The economic scale of the SME market is substantial, contributing £2.0 trillion (52%) a year to the UK economy alone and growing. But for SMEs wanting to trade internationally, they’re met with highly complex infrastructure and a myriad of lenders, brokers, FIs, processes and systems in place that lack sufficient integration or none at all. What’s...

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Laura Francis

Laura Francis Head of Brand and Marketing at Form3

Trading without borders: The cross border payments evolution

Plenty is unfolding in the global payments arena. There is a stream of new products or partnerships being publicised by financial institutions to improve the user experience across both domestic and international payments. One common theme rings true, the existing system is failing to meet the demands and realities of cross-border payments, especia...

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What are the payments trends for 2020?

There are some big changes in store in 2020, some obvious, some less so. In the payments landscape, it’s all about user convenience and customer experience, whether that’s through increased security for card users, or new ways to pay. Fragmented payments systems and services, from online to in-store, will move towards a unified centralised payment...

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