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Patrick Bermingham CEO at Adflex
Despite delivering convenience, speed and a better user experience in the consumer payments market, alternative payment methods (APMs) feature less prominently in the world of B2B transactions. It’s high time this changed. To understand why APMs are become increasingly important in B2B payments, let’s first clear up some confusion: What are APMs? ...
01 July 2019 /payments
Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay
Everyone understands the travel industry by now. But maybe the geography is changing. Maybe instead of tourists from ‘established markets’ visiting ‘emerging markets’, it’s beginning to go both ways. Travel operators are increasingly keen on positioning themselves as leaders in markets that were once just ‘destinations’. Getting in on the ground f...
19 June 2019 /payments
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
In all industries, there is a trend towards personalization. Clients want a product or service that is personalized to their needs and don’t accept anymore to pay for all kinds of whistles and bells, which they never use. The current pricing model of many digital companies is a (monthly) license/subscription model, where you get a pre-defined packa...
18 June 2019 /payments
Vinay Prabhakar VP, Product Marketing at Volante Technologies
Payments Canada’s annual Summit drew a record-breaking 1,700 attendees over three packed days in May to talk all things payments modernization. Here are six key takeaways from this essential event. Should we do open banking? “Yes!”, the consensus answer, required little debate. Rather the question “how should we do open banking?”, elicited a divers...
28 May 2019 /payments
Payment trends come and go. A select few can endure the test of time, but far more end up flashes in the payments pan. Being able to figure out which is which is an essential part of running a modern business, but sorting the wheat from the chaff is harder than it sounds. Luckily, there are a few key things you can keep an eye out for when giving ...
15 May 2019 /payments
The internet changed the way we do everything, and then the smartphone changed the way we do that. The rapid and massive growth of ‘sharing economy’ services like Uber and AirBnB, which offer platforms for ordinary people to rent out their time and resources to one another, have changed how we do things as basic as get around and go on holiday. ‘S...
08 May 2019 /payments
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SaaS platforms typically have fierce competition for the same end customer. Those that don’t look to continually offer new, sticky solutions as well as find new ways to further monetize their base, end up losing so much ground they ultimately have to close their doors. For application looking to avoid that fate adding or enhancing payment function...
03 May 2019 /payments
Industry-specific cryptocurrency is a relatively new trend in the crypto world, but it’s gaining popularity fast, and it looks like it might be a viable answer to a large number of problem currently faced by people operating in this field. Stablecoins have cropped up as a solution to the volatility commonly encountered in this area, and we’ve seen...
29 April 2019 /payments
The last decade has seen an explosion in mobile devices, and it’s changed the face of the eCommerce industry. Innovative mobile technologies are enabling shoppers to make digital purchases across the world in greater numbers than ever before, while mobile browsing and apps have skyrocketed in popularity. But while the mobile revolution has been gr...
09 April 2019 /payments
As the first business quarter of a new year draws to a close, it’s a good time to revisit the strategies you have put in place for 2019, to help ensure that your payments ecosystem is ready. For me there are four core issues you need to focus on. Who are my APIs for? As you create APIs, which make your payment services and related data available ex...
09 April 2019 /payments /retail
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