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Abigail Vaughan COO at Zellis
Payroll is arguably the single biggest source of highly valuable, yet underutilised data in any organisation. It can act as a detailed barometer for workforce trends, helping organisations to understand and optimise their employee experiences and ultimately drive better business outcomes. According to the 2020 Future of Payroll report from the CIP...
10 June 2021 /payments
Jaime Lowe Sales Director at UTP Group
The rapid roll-out of the UK’s Covid vaccination programme, with over 60 million administered doses to date, means that for many of us, life can begin to resemble something close to normal. This is a remarkable achievement and gives hope that at long last, this agonising and tragic period of our history may be finally drawing to a close. For busi...
26 May 2021 /payments /retail
Jussi Karjalainen CEO at Valtatech
Accounts payable (AP) automation is hot right now – a simple search for “AP automation” returns over 80 million results. In fact, a recent report identified that for many, especially in the enterprise space, automating and optimising procure to pay processes has become their highest, near term priority. Surprised? You should not be. The pandemic t...
13 May 2021 /payments /cloud
Retired Member
As anyone involved in product development will tell you, the push towards instant, more transparent cross-border payments is growing stronger with every day that passes. SWIFT’s ‘Global Payment Initiative' (gpi) is one of the more recent innovations that has real potential in helping businesses realise this goal. By connecting every party in the p...
13 May 2021 /payments
Commerce is global and customers not only have large domestic footprints but also increasingly global operations and pay supply chains. As business footprints increase, industries are becoming crowded, more competitive, and brands are fighting for space in their own sector. In the fight for space, the integration of financial services into non-fin...
12 May 2021 /payments
The surge in digital payments brought on by the pandemic is already well storied. Almost anyone who’s bought something in the last year can attest first-hand to the rise in e-commerce and contactless payments. But let’s be clear, this is not a sudden transformation. The critical digital infrastructure for consumer payments was laid over the last d...
06 May 2021 /payments
Oscar Perez Manager at Be | Shaping the Future
COVID-19 has changed the way consumers and businesses shop. The shift from physical to online sales has been significantly accelerated, with the e-commerce proportion of total sales increasing by nearly as much in one year as it had in the previous decade (see US data in the below graph as an example). Both B2C (Business-to-Consumer) and B2B (Busi...
28 April 2021 /payments /predictions
Anna Oleksiuk FinTech Practice Lead at Intellias
Could we have predicted the dethroning of cash in early 2019? Perhaps. But in 2020, multiple tell-tale signs has indicated that in the payments world, cash no longer reigns supreme. The volume of non-cash retail transactions has been growing consistently since 2017 in mature APAC markets (estimated 10% CARG through 2022) and developing economies...
26 April 2021 /payments /covid-19
Michael Ault CEO at UTP Group
For many years, payment terminals have been a vital tool for businesses that complete their customer transactions in-store. The familiar hand-held devices have reliably taken card payments and offered simple additional services like mobile phone top-ups, cashback or electronic tipping solutions. However, with recent technical innovation, boosted...
15 April 2021 /payments /covid-19
The last ten years have seen a transformation in the ways the world does business. Macroeconomic trends, regulatory developments, and technological advances have created new ways for businesses to offer value to customers. Business models that simply didn’t exist twenty-five years ago are now the norm, and are providing useful, efficient, flexible...
03 February 2021 /payments
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