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Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay
It goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that the payment process – as the make-or-break moment of any customer journey – must be as smooth as possible. So why are so many e-Commerce sites still struggling, weighed down by shoddy design, confusing error codes, and cobbled-together tech? Well, because it turns out that first creating and the...
13 February 2019 /payments
Retired Member
Visa’s planned acquisition of Earthport is the latest in a recent series of consolidations in the global payment systems sector, following in the wake of MasterCard’s purchase of UK operator VocaLink and Worldline’s purchase of the Swiss operator SIX Payments Services. For the two major credit card companies it is a move into handling payment tran...
24 January 2019 /payments
Simon Wilson MD, Transaction Automation at valanticFSA
Payments transformation will take centre stage for banks in 2019. Bank resilience hit the headlines in 2018, prompting the UK’s Treasury Select committee to announce a probe into the reasons for and the impact of – mainly payments related – IT failures. This comes after a number of well publicised events, where payment systems went down, and cust...
08 January 2019 /payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
I have written 380 blogs in Finextra since I was invited to join in 2008. Mostly about themes like e-banking, e-invoicing, e-id, e-salary, payments, the Single Market and lately more about the data-driven economy and its drivers DLT, GDPR and MyData. I am very grateful for having received some 1,6 million views and will try hard to get to the 2 mi...
29 December 2018 /inclusion
Gift cards continue to play an extremely important role in incentive marketing. Last year alone, the North American corporate market spent over $80 billion on incentives – including merchandise, experiences, and gift cards. Everyone has used a gift card at some point in their lives; gift cards are as ubiquitous as cash or cards at modern retails s...
05 December 2018 /payments
Jared Ronski Co-founder at MerchACT
The hustle and bustle of holiday shopping season is in full-swing, and with it comes the threat of a spike in chargebacks. While the excitement of increased ecommerce sales—to the tune of a predicted $119.99 billion—may glisten in merchants’ eyes, they should not forget what is lurking around after the holiday excitement calms. This increased ecom...
04 December 2018 /payments
One of the most important aspects of being a successful person is knowing that “you can’t do it alone.” Something I learned at a very early age is that you are only as good as the people you surround yourself with. Hurdling may be an individual sport, but I wouldn’t have reached the top of the podium at the 1992 Olympics without the help and suppo...
20 November 2018 /retail
To ensure your employees succeed, I suggest the following plan for recognizing and rewarding small accomplishments: Publicly Recognize Your Hard-Working Employees Perception and optics matter. Recognize achievements, celebrate milestones, and strengthen bonds by publicly acknowledging small wins. Create a culture that is built for future success....
08 November 2018 /retail
As the holidays swing into full-gear in 2018, high risk ecommerce merchants are well-advised to prepare their business for an onslaught of sales—and fraud. With an expected 15% year-over-year increase in online sales, high risk merchants are especially prone to problems arising from volume spikes, fraud spikes, and bad actors looking to exploit on...
05 November 2018 /security /payments
Having just attended the Pay.UK (formerly known as New Payment System Operator (NPSO)) progress update event, there seems to be a good amount of excitement, anticipation and intrigue around the launch of the New Payments Architecture (NPA) and associated End User Overlay Services – Request to Pay (RtP) and Confirmation of Payee (CoP). The ramific...
23 October 2018 /retail
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