362 Results from 2021, /payments
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Spanish consumers have recently had the ability to pay for purchases in installments. Traditional in-store arrangements allow consumers to pay for purchases over time, and some retailers like El Corte Inglés or Media Markt have offered interest-free or deferred payment options for many years. In recent years, newer types of electronic installment ...
11 June 2021 /payments /regulation BNPL
Janne Jutila Head of Business Alliances at Signicat AS
The first U.S. dollar, as it is known today, was printed in 1914 upon the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank. Since Bretton Wood conference in 1944 U.S. dollar has been the unchallenged global reserve currency with a dominating role in global trade. Before the hegemony of dollar, during previous centuries, the status of leading currency was much...
11 June 2021 /payments /crypto Blockchain Observations
Abigail Vaughan COO at Zellis
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...
10 June 2021 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Sean Salloux CEO at Sentinel Digital
Millennials are especially interested in digital assets and are keen to learn more about them, according to Mastercard. 40 per cent of people are planning to use digital assets in the coming year, according to Mastercard's New Payments Index. In particular, 67 percent of millennials said they were more likely to use digital assets now compared to a...
10 June 2021 /payments /crypto Fintech
Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
Being associated only with Bitcoin just 5 years ago, the word “cryptocurrency” had not been known to anyone 12 years ago. In 2021 there are around 2300 varieties of digital currencies. This payment method is steadily moving towards offline and is set to become a full-fledged means of payment alongside fiat currencies. Crypto finances were initiall...
08 June 2021 /payments /crypto Trends in Financial Services
Sam Ranieri Chief Executive Officer at Reach
More of us than ever – 2.1 billion globally, in fact -- are turning to ecommerce in a bid to get our shopping fix. Prior to 2020, the number of consumers choosing to shop online was already increasing; now, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the knock-on effects of changing consumer behavior, this rise is breaking every record ever set for e...
08 June 2021 /payments
Shagun Varshney Senior Product Manager at Signifyd
Did you hear the one about how SCA is delayed for six months? Of course you have... Five times now. It would be funny if it weren’t so, well, not funny. UK retailers and their product teams have been whipsawed repeatedly by moving enforcement deadlines for the new payment regulations being ushered in by PSD2, which passed in 2015. “These are compl...
04 June 2021 /payments /crime Frictionless Payments
In the midst of the tide of consumers migrating to online channels of commerce, there has been a strong need to focus on reinventing the proximity payment options to meet consumers’ expectations for seamless checkout experiences. Besides the unwelcome arrival of Covid-19 has further pushed the requirement of cashless, and more importantly contactl...
04 June 2021 /payments /covid-19 Frictionless Payments
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Treasury management or more generally Supply Chain Finance management is still a neglected topic at many SMEs. While large international corporations make the investment into expensive treasury management solutions (often part of their ERP solution) and even setup their own In-House Banks, this is considerably more difficult for the mid-corp segmen...
01 June 2021 /payments The Payments Business
The Fintech industry is driving a rapid transformation that even regulators are struggling to keep up with. In 2020, over 20,000 new Fintech start-ups launched globally, with this number only set to rise each year. As company’s become more imaginative, financial services are becoming more streamlined and simplified. While increased competition is ...
01 June 2021 /payments /regulation Banking Regulations
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