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Share opinion and experience on how the payments landscape is changing and learn about the challenges and opportunities facing payments stakeholders in the future.
Providing seamless payment journey, with the options for customers to pay with their preferred local payment methods, is not only necessary for international crypto exchanges, but it is key to make tr...
The next bank you sign up to may not be a bank at all. It could be Apple or Square, Adyen or even Stripe. If the writing isn’t on the wall already, big tech is coming after banking. What started in s...
The rise of e-commerce and global payment providers has transformed the way in which merchants are able to access emerging markets. By understanding the complex infrastructure of payments systems at a...
The online payments ecosystem is in disruption, largely brought about by cryptocurrencies, the first of which was created over ten years ago. In February 2021, the Bitcoin exchange rate reached an all...
Africa’s vibrant economy and lack of significant legacy payment infrastructure have led to a curious phenomenon on the continent. On the one hand, it has given rise to an explosion of payment platform...
When compact discs were first released in the 1980’s, people were amazed at the thought of digital music and it took some years for music listeners to think about replacing their vinyl records with CD...
Perhaps you’re interested in setting up an offshore bank account. However, one internet search is all it takes to find that there’s a lot of conflicting information about offshore banking. So, what’s ...
The Japanese market is becoming increasingly popular among western companies, fuelled by its large, wealthy population and strong perception of western goods. Yet it’s a market known for being difficu...
The battle lines have been drawn, but which side will back down first is still to be decided. Now in its third week, the spat caused by Amazon’s announcement that it would stop accepting Visa credit c...
ISO 20022 is coming. The new global messaging standard for payments systems is generally agreed to be a good thing for the banking industry – the Bank of England’s consultation on the plans showed re...
As a common business language for the financial marketplace, ISO 20022 is firmly positioned as a unifier for new and contrasting FinTech innovations, such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Smart...
Cloud adoption among banks has accelerated exponentially in recent years with views now pivoting towards seeing cloud as central to resiliency challenges. Unlike cloud-based systems, legacy technology...