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John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

APP (Authorised Push Payment) fraud mitigation planned by banking and payment authorities

APP fraud is rocketing, up 70 per cent in six months, and likely to be a multi billion business shortly. No one is surprise to learn that the Bank of England, Pay.UK and UK Finance (The Collaboration) have joined forces in defining a new data model to mitigate Authorised Push Payment Fraud and reduce friction in the payment process, e.g. misdirec...

/payments /regulation Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis

Luigi Wewege

Luigi Wewege President at Caye International Bank

Explore 6 Structures for Offshore Corporate Bank Accounts

International banking has long included options for different businesses and commercial entities to establish accounts around the world. In some cases, the structures of those corporate bank accounts are like those used by individuals. What may differ is the requirements for establishing specific types of bank accounts in various offshore settings...

/wealth /markets Marketing in Financial Services

Todd Clyde

Todd Clyde CEO at Token.io

Making good on open banking payments’ promise

Open banking is the most exciting disruption to hit financial services in a generation and is fundamentally changing the payments landscape. Account-to-account (A2A) payments offer not only cost savings and better cash flow but unrivalled reach by covering anyone with a bank account, all while providing smoother onboarding processes and superb ban...

/payments The future of Payments in Europe

Jessica Bayley

Jessica Bayley Head of Marketing at Acquired.com

The importance of seamless payment experiences in the restaurant and takeaway industry

87% of industry restaurant operators, owners and managers believe that technology adoption has been critical for survival throughout the COVID-19 pandemic (Global State of the Hospitality Industry). The unprecedented events of the last 18 months have resulted in massive loss of earnings for the sector merchants are looking for ways to save time an...

/payments Business

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Retired Member 

Armchair Fraudsters – Impact of COVID-19 on “Friendly Fraud”

Working from home has become “the norm” for many of us, as COVID-19 forced the closures of traditional offices, people across the world moved into hastily converted kitchens, sheds, dining rooms and spare bedrooms to create homeworking spaces. In the UK alone nearly 70% of us are still working from home in some capacity, whether it’s on a full-tim...

/payments /crime Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis

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Building Trust with Biometric Cards—Less Friction, More Security

How we managed payments only few years ago is now going through a big change on every level. Not only are we seeing the expansion of digital platforms, but also new products like digital wallets and biometric cards are popping up everywhere. Biometrics are used to identify individuals using unique identifiers such as facial recognition, iris verifi...

/security /payments Biometrics

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Upgrading Real Estate Tokenization to the Next Level

Blockchain technology is not a relatively new technology. It existed for many years, but only now has it gained mainstream appeal. The past few years saw blockchain technology getting integrated into various businesses and bringing significant benefits and change. Now, according to experts, real estate tokenization can bring beneficial changes thr...

/crypto Blockchain Observations

Anuj Kumar

Anuj Kumar UK Financial Service Strategy Lead at SAP UK

Fintechs – 'Fintastically' getting stronger en-route to transforming the FS landscape

The Financial Services (FS) sector is risk averse, has been and most likely will remain so. Historically a sector that maintains a perception of being different, complex, and often resistant to disruption and digitisation. However, “the order is rapidly fadin'. And the first one now. Will later be last. For the times they are a-changin (Bob Dylan)....

/startups /predictions Fintech

Anna Kuzmina

Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech

Is the Singles Day gold rush over?

Singles Day or World Shopping Day or 11.11 — AliExpress’ major sale might be the single most important thing that happened to Russia in this respect. Every year this sale breaks another record in China, Russia and the rest of the world. Singles Day is the day that everyone needs to be ready for beforehand. Customers gather up wish lists and shoppi

/retail /markets Business

Keith Stanton

Keith Stanton International Product Manager (Fraud & Risk) at FIS

Fraud in the Covid Age

Since the beginning of March 2020, when the world moved to multiple lockdowns and restricted activity as a result of the ongoing pandemic, it’s been clear that there has been a real shift in how we transact. It’s a subject I’ve covered in previous blogs, but as we come to the end of 2021, and payment data continues to be published for 2020, we are...

/payments /crime

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