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Jared Ronski

Jared Ronski Co-founder at MerchACT

Why You Should Start Thinking About Your Holiday Chargeback Prevention Plan Now

Chargebacks are an unfortunate fact of life for most merchants. They’re damaging and tedious, represent lost revenue, dent your reputation and can get you classified as a high risk merchant if you have too many. Many merchants don’t fully understand what a chargeback is, what they can do if they have one, and (most importantly) how to prevent the

/payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Big buck cost of NPSO directors just for the first few months of operation

NPSO Report & Accounts for the period from its foundation on 18th July 2017 until 31st December 2017 show Directors' Remuneration at £229,469, with the highest-paid director receiving £93,333. This seems like a very large bill for a board on which 6 out of 7 directors were non-executive. It is not even a bill for 1/2 of a year, but more like 1/...

/payments Transaction Banking

Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

Technology Platform - Go Wide Or Go Deep?

We come across the “Go Wide or Go Deep?” question regularly in our outsourced product management engagements. (Should the term “outsourced product management” intrigue you, see Who The Heck Outsources Product Management?). Let’s take a typical scenario: An IT company has developed a horizontal technology platform without reference to any specific s...

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Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Project Carlton Phase 1 on UK payments landscape is complete

The sponsor of Project Carlton has signed off on the intial research and endorsed that it be shared for validation with five or six interested parties. The research plots the ministrations towards the UK payments landscape over the past 5 years of HMTreasury, the Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Payment Systems Regulator, the P...

/payments Transaction Banking

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Retired Member 

Remember why we do this?

One of the things I've noticed since working in the payments space are the tribes and the tension/conflict/cooperation/outright hostility …… The first of these, and longest running is the tension between card schemes and issuer & acquirer banks. Every one wants a piece of the transaction and to take some margin to run their part of the value ch...

/payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services

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Retired Member 

Speed

One thing that is clear from modern life is that it isn't slowing down any time soon, Everywhere you look the world is getting faster and the Financial Service Industry has been doing this for years; it pioneered IT to smooth transactions inside companies and between companies, it created networks that span the globe, from interbank to consumer pa...

/payments Online Banking

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Demise of cash continuing in Finland

A population of 5,5m (and some tourists) produced the following ATM volumes: Million times/billion €s: 2014: 145,1 million times/14,4billion € 2015: 137,1m/13,9bn 2016: 124,3m/13,0bn 2017: NA yet m/12,1bn So the rate of decline of €s has doubled to 7% in 2017 compared to 2015. Serious cost savings for all. Shops are not refusing cash yet - unlike S...

/payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Research phase of Project Carlton, new UK payment services design

Two weeks ago, in a blog here on Finextra, we stated that our company had obtained initial funding and support for a project to design a new suite of UK payment services, to set against those being implemented by the UK’s New Payment System Operator (“NPSO”). This project now has a name – Project Carlton – and it is at the stage where we have deliv...

/payments Transaction Banking

Jared Ronski

Jared Ronski Co-founder at MerchACT

5 Tips to Streamline Ecommerce Payments and Improve Customer Experience at Checkout

Digital payments are on the rise, and if you’re an ecommerce merchant, you’ll want to capitalize on this growth. But as this sector continues to become more popular, payment processing systems have the potential to become ever more complex. Between credit card companies, banks, retailers, and consumers, the payments processing landscape represent...

/payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

Beware Of Committing Harakiri By Lying With Big Data

I recently saw the following post on LinkedIn: “95% of banks in the study have created innovation labs.” This figure seemed extremely high to me. I did a quick-and-dirty survey of three banks in my circle. Not one of them has an innovation lab. Nevertheless, I couldn't conclude that the author of the post was lying because I couldn’t find evidence ...

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