Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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

Saara Day Head of Marketing at Beyond

What does it take to win the payments transformation race?

The new report “The Payments Transformation Race: Criteria for Success” from Aite and Icon Solutions identified that banks that have a clear and robust payments transformation plan are more profitable than their competitors – effectively widening the gap between the winners and losers in the transformation race. So how does a bank become one of th...

01 October 2019 /payments

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

The UnBanked don’t need Banks!

UnBanked – They don’t need Banks! It's SIBOS!! For me this the best time of my year. I have been to 17 of the last 22 SIBOS’s. For some, their event is the Super Bowl, the Olympics or FIBA Basketball Championship or for many more it’s the World Cup, but me, SIBOS is my Super Bowl. This year many people are talking about SWIFT falling behind, at th...

30 September 2019 /payments

Hussam Kamel Payments Architect at Icon Solutions

Are Central Banks best positioned to tackle the cross-border payments conundrum?

Cross-border payments are riddled with complexity and lack the regulatory framework and standards to ensure the instant, seamless performance and competitively priced offerings that today’s banking customers have come to expect. Ripe for a revolution, it’s attracting numerous new ‘disruptive’ players and, as the market becomes increasingly crowded,...

10 September 2019 /payments

Mark Goldspink CEO at The ai Corporation

How Artificial Intelligence is changing the way SMEs make and receive payments

It is well documented how A.I./machine learning has been used over the past 30 years to help financial institutions prevent fraud on consumer credit cards. The reason why this was a particularly good use case for the first advances of this technology, was the ever-growing amount of data. As we know neural/machine learning technology learns and per...

18 July 2019 /ai /payments

Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene

How a traditional mercado transforms the payments experience in Mechelen

For those who don’t know Mechelen: this is my home town. It is a small city in Belgium, right in between Brussels and Antwerp. These days, its colourful history makes of Mechelen a hotspot for tourists. Dear tourists: we have good news! Mechelen has a new attraction: De Vleeshalle — a Mercado, an indoor food market. I am not a food critic, so don’...

04 July 2019 /payments

Domenico Scaffidi Payments Business Development Director at Volante Technologies

What we heard at EBAday 2019

As one of the leading payments conferences in Europe, EBAday is a great forum to gauge industry sentiment on a number of challenges and opportunities taking place in the rapidly changing payments landscape. Through some very interesting conversations with clients and delegates, we were able to identify a few key themes from the event. These includ...

03 July 2019 /payments

Patrick Bermingham CEO at Adflex

APMs for B2B payments...Buzzword or next big thing?

Despite delivering convenience, speed and a better user experience in the consumer payments market, alternative payment methods (APMs) feature less prominently in the world of B2B transactions. It’s high time this changed. To understand why APMs are become increasingly important in B2B payments, let’s first clear up some confusion: What are APMs? ...

01 July 2019 /payments

Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay

Facing Challenges Head-on in Emerging Markets

Everyone understands the travel industry by now. But maybe the geography is changing. Maybe instead of tourists from ‘established markets’ visiting ‘emerging markets’, it’s beginning to go both ways. Travel operators are increasingly keen on positioning themselves as leaders in markets that were once just ‘destinations’. Getting in on the ground f...

19 June 2019 /payments

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

Micro Payments - A revolution in the payments landscape

In all industries, there is a trend towards personalization. Clients want a product or service that is personalized to their needs and don’t accept anymore to pay for all kinds of whistles and bells, which they never use. The current pricing model of many digital companies is a (monthly) license/subscription model, where you get a pre-defined packa...

18 June 2019 /payments

Vinay Prabhakar VP, Product Marketing at Volante Technologies

Payments Canada Summit 2019: Six Takeaways

Payments Canada’s annual Summit drew a record-breaking 1,700 attendees over three packed days in May to talk all things payments modernization. Here are six key takeaways from this essential event. Should we do open banking? “Yes!”, the consensus answer, required little debate. Rather the question “how should we do open banking?”, elicited a divers...

28 May 2019 /payments