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Payments systems visions, strategies, trends, pilots, forecasting, and planning for the short-, medium-, and far-term.
The payments industry had been dealing with a series of rolling crises, tectonic shifts in the global financial system, before the world’s central banks sounded the alarm on stagflation. It feels like...
Across all walks of life, one thing that brings people together is the fact that we all have bills to pay. When it comes to business owners, the nature and quantity of those bills becomes more difficu...
Over the last two years, PaaS (Payment-as-a-Service) providers have entered the market at an increasingly rapid pace. As PaaS expands its breadth of cloud-based services to the payment value chain, th...
The rise of digital payment systems in Latin America (LATAM) is typically dominated by discussions on the region’s largest markets. Brazil and Mexico feature heavily in this discourse, a reflection of...
For the majority of the payment industry’s history, innovation has been led by multinational payment organizations. Having established a foothold in advanced economies and setting the groundwork for d...
E-commerce has revolutionised the way consumers are able to find and purchase goods and services online. In advanced economies, online transactions have become commonplace, with some businesses even p...
This principle is not a new one. Sometimes it is talked about in a different manner, but let's consider how long data has been harped on about as the ‘next big thing’. It goes as far back as 2006 when...
The past two years have represented a seismic shift in the patterns of both our working and personal lives. The pandemic has impacted many aspects of our lives and accelerated pre-existing trends in h...
The Australian banking industry is displaying a worrying lack of urgency when it comes to plugging the strategic holes in our payments infrastructure after the floods in NSW and Queensland. Global thr...
We are living in one of the most exciting times in the payment space. It would have been hard for many to predict 30 years ago that we would make payments with mobile phones or even digital watches, a...
More than ever before, innovative payment methods are being used as a force for positive social change, especially as charities recover from shortfalls experienced during the pandemic. UK charities su...