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Nikunj Gundaniya

Nikunj Gundaniya Product manager at Digipay.guru

Which Wallet Solution Matches Your Business Model: eWallet or Digital Wallet?

Your customers expect quick, secure, and smooth digital payments. If you fail to meet that expectation, they’ll look for other options. That’s where wallet solutions come in. But with so many options available, how do you decide which one fits your business? You’ve likely heard the terms eWallet and digital wallet solution. They sound similar, but...

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Onkar Chachad

Onkar Chachad Product Manager at Veefin

ESG-Linked Payments in Transaction Banking

Adding ESG criteria to Corporate payments can change how money flows through supply chains and finance. What began as CSR reporting has grown into real-time green incentives, making ESG a key strategy for both companies and banks. ESG reporting started as a voluntary effort. Companies published sustainability reports to satisfy investors and regul...

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Ruchi Rathor

Ruchi Rathor Founder at Payomatix Technologies

What Do Modern Customers Expect?

Today, customers expect fast, easy, and secure payments. Whether they are shopping online or in a store, they want the payment process to be smooth. Customers today are used to digital tools. They want quick checkouts, different payment options, and simple steps. If a payment fails or takes too long, they may not come back. Making the payment proce...

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Scott Dawson

Scott Dawson CEO at DECTA

Innovation Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Progress

In 2013, Google launched an ambitious and attention-grabbing experiment: Google Glass. Marketed as a glimpse into the future, it promised a seamless blend of digital and physical reality through an augmented-reality headset. Journalists were enthusiastically promoting it as early as 2012, and by the time its soft launch came around industry obser...

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Paul Quickenden

Paul Quickenden Chief Commercial Officer at Easy Crypto

Stablecoins, smart contracts and the rise of more intelligent cash

Fintechs already have the talent, the ingenuity and after a decade of challenger success with innovations like Wise’s borderless accounts, Stripe’s one-click checkout and Revolut’s multi-currency wallets - the credibility to reshape finance on a global stage. Those breakthroughs gave consumers faster payments and slicker front-ends; but let’s call...

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Research

Impact Study

Case Management: The key to revolutionising cross-border payments

While the challenges of case management and inefficient E&I processes are not new, the need to address them is more pressing than ever – especially given the G20’s roadmap deadline and the impending global migration to ISO 20022.  In today’s digital era, end-users expect payments to be faster, cheaper and more convenient than ever before – whether domestic or cross-border. As global payment barriers are overcome, banks are tasked not only with meeting customer demands, but business and regulatory ones too.  Enhanced cross-border payments – as supported by the G20’s roadmap and the richer data that ISO 20022 provides – are becoming a real differentiator, with the capability to unlock tremendous value for institutions. However, while a lot of attention is paid to seamless transactions, one area has historically been overlooked: exceptions and investigations (E&I).  This continues to present a significant challenge for both payment providers and corporates, and is impacting numerous networks and technologies. Yet, if harnessed effectively, E&I tools can help institutions significantly reduce costs, speed up processing times, improve transparency and, by extension, satisfy the G20’s targets.  This Finextra impact study, in partnership with Swift, explores:  The advantages of effective E&I processes;  Why solutions are needed to reach the next level; and  How banks can effectively embed them in their infrastructures. 

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The future of payments in major global markets: A mid-decade review

2025 is a significant year for the global payments industry. Marking the midpoint of the decade, and witnessing pivotal trends like the rise of real-time payments, advanced fraud detection and prevention, data portability, and open finance—these interlinked developments will set the stage for innovation through to 2030 and beyond.  The payments industry is now at the tipping point of global innovation, especially with global e-commerce market revenue projected to reach over $4.3 billion in 2025 and grow by 8% (CAGR 2025-2029). Further, by 2026, 5.2 billion people, or more than 60% of the global population, are expected to use digital wallets. The value of global transactions through account-to-account (A2A) payments is also predicted to rise from $1.7 trillion in 2024 to $5.7 trillion by 2029 – an increase of 230%. This will also pave the way for real-time payments to boom, with an expected CAGR of over 35% from 2024 to 2032. Looking at major global markets, the UK has continued to be at the forefront of the global payments revolution, quickly emerging as a hub for open banking as a result of the PSD2 directive and the UK’s pioneering standard. In October 2024, the Data Use and Access Bill was introduced to the House of Lords, signalling the UK’s commitment to bolstering open banking’s data sharing principles. Similarly, a month later, the National Payments Vision was unveiled, charting a clear path for the entire ecosystem to leverage technologies such as AI and DLT. The payments revolution is also taking over Europe. The Instant Payments Regulation (IPR) is rolling out instant payments by amending SEPA and adding specific provisions on instant credit transfers in euro to existing cross-border regulation: the Settlement Finality Directive (SFD) and the Payment Services Directive (PSD2). IPR also demands for Verification of Payee (VoP), confirming a recipient's account details before a payment is made and bringing down increasing numbers of fraud, particularly in the instant payments space. Similar to other regions, the US has made significant steps toward the innovation and interoperability of real-time payments – most recently through the launch of FedNow in 2023, the Federal Reserve’s real-time payment rail. Predictions show a total value of $95 billion in-app social commerce payments by 2030 in the US alone, meaning the integration of open banking is pivotal to maximising the value to be gained from e-commerce. However, the impact of the Trump administration’s strains on the CFPB and how that will effect Section 1033 and open banking in the US will be seen. This Finextra report, in association with Form3, examines the impact of these crucial advancements on the future of global payment schemes in the UK, Europe and the US, highlighting insights from experts at Bank of America, Crédit Agricole, ING, J.P. Morgan Payments, Lloyds, Santander, and Truist.

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PaaS, cloud and instant payments: Navigating the outsourcing question

Today’s institutions are in some ways faced with far greater challenges than ever before. Be it from the demand for ever-faster services; the pressure of always-on compliance; or the need to remain agile and competitive. Is PaaS the holy grail FIs have been looking for?  Outsourcing payments is an increasingly irresistible proposition for FIs. With end-user demand constantly evolving; real-time requirements on the rise; macro-economic trends becoming ever more unpredictable; and the pressure of regulatory compliance ratcheting up, the provision of proprietary payments has become a thorny pursuit.  Enter the stage: cloud technology. By leveraging modern tools and techniques to build, deploy, run, and manage software in a cloud-computing environment, FIs of all kinds can take advantage of scalability, elasticity, and automation. But the benefits of Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) can extend beyond these practicalities – serving to revolutionise bank operations, unlock broader efficiencies, and enrich the end-user experience.  Mining this potential, however, obliges institutions to navigate some challenges. First, FIs must understand the potential of cloud-native technology as an engine for modernisation and embrace the cultural shift that is triggered by cuttingedge technologies. It may involve training, testing and concerted integration efforts.  Another key challenge is delegation: which tasks should be handed to third parties, and which should remain in-house? Indeed, when systems evolve, FIs must always keep one eye on compliance. As ever, approach and growth potential are directly impacted by the type and size of the institution in question, so approaches should be tailored.  This Finextra whitepaper, produced in association with FIS, evaluates:  The key considerations when placing client transaction data in the public cloud;  The art of delegation: Determining which tasks to offload;  The role of regulation and compliance; and  A PaaS checklist for finding the right solutions and partnerships.    Register to watch the related Finextra webinar, hosted in association with FIS – PaaS, cloud and instant payments in the spotlight: Overcoming outsourcing challenges

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FinextraTV

How Cloud-Native Platforms Can Transform Siloed Payments

Erich Litch, General Manager, Payment Software, ACI Worldwide joined the FinextraTV Studio at EBA Day 2025 to discuss how cloud-native platforms are transforming the payments industry. Explaining the complicated nature of siloed payment systems with their own unique needs, Litch believed cloud-native platforms can help to unite these challenges into opportunities.

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Long reads

Henna Cheema

Henna Cheema Researcher at Finextra

Why 65% of the banking industry is not fully prepared for DORA: Key Insights from NextGen Nordics

Set against the dynamic backdrop of the Nordic financial landscape, the NextGen Nordics 2025 event in Stockholm, Sweden on 29 April 2025 featured key findings from Finextra’s latest survey, highlighting the Nordic community’s concerns and aspirations. Real time data gathered from interactive audience polls throughout the event offered live insight...

Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Payments modernisation: How banks can leverage partnerships to scale up

As digital-first banks and neobanks take the lead in the global payments space, traditional financial institutions are looking to evolve. To keep up with the rapid pace of the industry, banks need to be in a constant stage of evolution. How can legacy banks modernise, and what tools are available to support them in their digital transformation jou...

Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

What happens when money thinks for itself?

This is an excerpt from The Future of European Fintech 2025: A Money20/20 Special Edition. The evolution of financial technology is characterised by increasing levels of simplicity, efficiency, and integration. We saw this in 2016, when Europe’s second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) encouraged financial institutions to open up their data and i...