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Andre Malinowski Head of International Business at Computop GmbH
This short blog is the last one out of a series of four, addressing steps a merchant organization should take to choose & use their payment service provider. Conversion rates don’t lie Define some metrics for measuring the performance of your new payment strategy upfront. Remember, in the first step we gathered information about your industry ...
07 October 2011 /payments /retail
(3/4) This short blog is number three out of a series of four, addressing steps a merchant organization should take to choose & use their payment service provider. Future environment Now it’s time for your organization to define what your future should look like without any of the restrictions you might currently have. Look at your short-, mid...
06 October 2011 /payments /retail
(2/4) This short blog is number two out of a series of four, addressing steps a merchant organization should take to choose & use their payment service provider. Preparation is paramount Choosing and using the right PSP is a collaborative exercise within a merchant organization involving E-commerce, F&A and IT. Include the whole group an...
05 October 2011 /payments /retail
Retired Member
Loyalty professionals have long been using ‘games’ to foster loyal customers, frequent flyer schemes being just one example. In such programmes, the customer is rewarded for his loyalty by progressing to a higher status, bringing with it benefits such as access to an airline lounge or extra baggage allowances. While the notion of gamifying the ret...
04 October 2011 /payments /retail
As we're wrapping up the loose ends from Toronto, the thing I keep coming back to is how different the conversations were than they have been in the past. I spoke to a lot of people, primarily from financial institutions, and it almost didn't matter what technology they were talking about - they all had the same concerns. Rather than fancy ideas or...
04 October 2011 /payments /sibos
In a time of extreme economic sensitivity I was surprised to read details of a Simon-Kucher research exercise which concluded that the average price consumer are willing to pay to load a prepaid NFC e-Wallet is around £3 and that 65% of the public are eagerly awaiting this. Now I am not normally one to criticise research exercises but I am fairly...
03 October 2011 /payments
(1/4) In the ever-growing complexity of today’s E-commerce world, organizations are facing more and more the challenge of understanding their own needs and identifying and selecting the appropriate business partners for offering E-commerce capabilities. This short blog is number one out of a series of four, addressing steps a merchant organizati...
03 October 2011 /payments /retail
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
What we (collectively) did right when launching e-invoicing in Finland and recommend: 1. Banks joined collectively with invoice portals and file transfer > payment automation was improved, financing aspects added and non-bank service providers were much invigorated. Only banks have the capability and business case to sign up the SME-sector qui...
02 October 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft
There is a growing number of examples of fraudsters using social media to extract personal information from customers. A recent case hit the Bank of Melbourne, when fraudsters sent direct messages with a link aiming to harvest users' Twitter credentials (Finextra Sept 16 2011). One of the problems for the security industry is that on social media...
30 September 2011 /security /payments Innovation in Financial Services
To predict what the future of the payment industry holds right now is almost impossible. Not only are current options constantly developing, but new possibilities also keep emerging at a fast rate. Just as we are all getting used to paying for goods online the e-commerce market is growing steadily, suddenly platforms like social networks and mobile...
30 September 2011 /payments
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