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Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Payments systems visions, strategies, trends, pilots, forecasting, and planning for the short-, medium-, and far-term.

Abigail Vaughan

Abigail Vaughan COO at Zellis

How Using Data Analytics Can Unlock the True Strategic Value of Your Payroll

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...

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Jaime Lowe

Jaime Lowe Sales Director at UTP Group

In a post-Covid world, adaptability is the best business strength

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...

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Jussi Karjalainen

Jussi Karjalainen CEO at Valtatech

Clearing the fog around AP automation. Can it really save you cash and drive business value?

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...

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Fintechs are democratising access to a new era of payments visibility

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...

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Embedded Payments Will Help Brands Compete Globally Over The Next Decade

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...

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B2B payments: The real digital revolution no one’s talking about

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...

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Oscar Perez

Oscar Perez Manager at Be | Shaping the Future

Online marketplace payments to hit USD $8.7 trillion by 2025

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...

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Anna Oleksiuk

Anna Oleksiuk FinTech Practice Lead at Intellias

The Main “C” of 2021 Is Not COVID, It’s Cashless

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...

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Michael Ault

Michael Ault CEO at UTP Group

Getting smart about payment terminals

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...

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Saying goodbye to antiquated payment infrastructures

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...

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