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Paul Marcantonio

What are the payment alternatives in 2024?

Card schemes were planning to increase fees, according to reports last autumn. Then the UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) announced in December 2023 provisional proposals to introduce a price cap fo...

19 Feb 2024
Paul Marcantonio

Anti-fraud solutions that can’t detect fraud rings are redundant in 2023

In today’s e-commerce landscape, fraud prevention and detection solutions must include tools such as graph analysis to track data across numerous transactions. Over the last few years, the e-commerce ...

05 Jun 2023
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Marcantonio

Will Open Banking hit the mainstream in 2023?

Open banking has the potential to reshape eCommerce transactions, yet so far, uptake has been slow amongst consumers. Since Open Banking was introduced in January 2018, UK banks have been required to ...

13 Apr 2023
Open Banking
Paul Marcantonio

Will BNPL use increase this Christmas as the cost of living continues to rise?

With Christmas just around the corner and many consumers feeling the pinch of a rapidly worsening cost of living crisis, festive spending is already being curtailed. As consumers become more cautious ...

21 Dec 2022
BNPL
Paul Marcantonio

Payment Solutions To Help Businesses Scale in an Era of Economic Turbulence

As 2022 comes to an end, the global economic landscape is looking increasingly bleak. COVID-19, war, sanctions, energy shortages and inflation all contribute to a mood of uncertainty amongst business ...

02 Nov 2022
BNPL
Paul Marcantonio

How Fintech is Changing the Travel and Hospitality Industries

Travel spending is showing signs of recovery after the pandemic. However, lifestyle shifts will continue to influence industry trends, especially when it comes to online payments. The travel and hospi...

22 Aug 2022
Financial Transformation
Paul Marcantonio

Fighting the coronavirus cybercriminals

The coronavirus pandemic is changing all of our lives in ways we could barely have imagined twelve months ago. From stay-at-home-lockdowns to mandatory masks, to a new culture of increasingly working ...

18 Aug 2020
Fintech
Paul Marcantonio

Left Behind: Is Cashless Society Harming the Vulnerable?

The cashless revolution is here, and it’s happening all over the globe: from Malaysian village market stalls to the London high street. There can be no revolution without controversy, of course. Domin...

28 Jan 2020
Financial Inclusion
Paul Marcantonio

5 Steps to Set Up Online Payments for Your Business

Selling things online can be complicated. There are web shops to design, product descriptions to create, and payment methods to set up. The latter is probably the single most important part of the pro...

13 Jan 2020
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Paul Marcantonio

3 payment technologies to increase conversion

Though it may seem like everything in the payments space is geared towards boosting conversion, i.e. the amount of times a potential customers completes the intended action of clicking “buy” – and thi...

25 Nov 2019
The Payments Business
Paul Marcantonio

The Potential and Reality of Cryptocurrency in Video Gaming

Cryptocurrency promises to change the world, but it might start with games. The ubiquity of microtransactions in modern video games makes the industry ripe for a crypto insurgence. With gamers spendin...

02 Oct 2019
Paul Marcantonio

5 Considerations for Choosing a Payment Services Provider

My colleague recently published a piece on selecting a payment gateway and it got me thinking. How do you choose a service - any kind of service - when you're inundated with options? I've decided to u...

12 Aug 2019

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