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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.

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A dynamic payments environment calls for the right partner

Not too long ago, payment methods were limited. Now, the constant increase in choices leads consumers to change habits quickly. The payment options travel companies offer their customers can be a major differentiator. If a traveler discovers an OTA or supplier doesn’t accept their preferred method, they may shop elsewhere. Deloitte’s Payment Trend...

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Bernd Richter

Bernd Richter SVP - FIS Impact Ventures at FIS

Payments as a service - a new normal future of payments?

Banks are increasingly outsourcing their core payments platform technology and operations. What seemed in past years far fetched even to consider has become a viable option. Is Payments as a Service (PaaS) on the brink of becoming the new normal for banks as technology-focused payments service providers are winning more and larger in scope mandate...

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Paul Marcantonio

Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay

5 Steps to Set Up Online Payments for Your Business

Selling things online can be complicated. There are web shops to design, product descriptions to create, and payment methods to set up. The latter is probably the single most important part of the process - for a very simple reason. If your customers can't pay, they won't buy. So how do you accept payments online? Let’s look at it step by step. 1. ...

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Anthony Walton

Anthony Walton CEO at Iliad Solutions

Increased Regulation of Operational Risk is Coming

At the end of October, a Treasury Committee report in the UK said the frequency of online banking crashes and customer disruption had become unacceptable. Steve Baker, the Treasury Committee’s lead member for this inquiry was quoted as saying: “The number of IT failures that have occurred in the financial services sector, including TSB, Visa and Ba...

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Anthony Walton

Anthony Walton CEO at Iliad Solutions

Readiness for Immediate Payments

The payments industry is seeing a massive global surge in the implementation or modernisation of Immediate Payment systems. These systems challenge the status quo, and when used effectively create real opportunities for financial institutions to improve service and/or develop new business opportunities. In Ovum’s 2018 Payments Report (2018 Globa...

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Adoption of Modern Payment Options Spurred on By Businesses Targeting Younger Demographics

According to recent evidence, businesses are starting to adopt modern payment options in heretofore unseen numbers. While hard numbers are still unavailable, preliminary anecdotes seem to indicate that part of the reason is an attempt to attract younger consumers who might not otherwise purchase particular goods or services. Should they not have a...

Simon Bennet

Simon Bennet Partner & Co-Founder at Domain Matters

20022 after 2020

SWIFT payments and related messages are changing to ISO 20022 standard in the coming three years and these changes will be market mandatory over the medium term. At this point the key action item is to approve seed funding to develop detailed Impact Assessment(s) and Implementation Plans during 2020. Context – what’s changing, why, and when: Mes...

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Saara Day

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...

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Chris Principe

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...

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Hussam Kamel

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,...

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