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SME Challenges in Cross Border payments

The economic scale of the SME market is substantial, contributing £2.0 trillion (52%) a year to the UK economy alone and growing. But for SMEs wanting to trade internationally, they’re met with highly complex infrastructure and a myriad of lenders, brokers, FIs, processes and systems in place that lack sufficient integration or none at all. What’s...

20 April 2020 /payments The future of Payments in Europe

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Accelerating innovation in financial services: Is Faster Payments doing enough?

The concept of real-time payment processing both from an operational and cost advantage is big news yet only 36% of all electronic payments in the UK are now via the Faster Payments Service (FPS)1. One could argue that FPS has fundamentally changed the nature of payments, user experience and the real economy. But in reality, the race to real-time ...

14 April 2020 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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Trading without borders: The cross border payments evolution

Plenty is unfolding in the global payments arena. There is a stream of new products or partnerships being publicised by financial institutions to improve the user experience across both domestic and international payments. One common theme rings true, the existing system is failing to meet the demands and realities of cross-border payments, especia...

02 March 2020 /payments The future of Payments in Europe

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