243 Results from 2020, /payments
Hannes Van Rensburg Chief Commercial Officer at Clickatell
There were some high profile announcements of WhatsApp payments available in Brazil (https://tcrn.ch/3dzlnC9) recently. Anybody interested in chat commerce sat up and took notice. Some also tried out Facebook Pay, the payments service WhatsApp owner Facebook launched last year. I can say with some certainty, we all were excited about the possibili...
30 June 2020 /payments The Payments Business
Conchur Gill Associate Partner, Payments at Be | Shaping The Future
RBS’s recent announcement that it will close its ‘green-field’ challenger bank Bó did not surprise many in the FinTech industry. The writing had been on the wall for some time. The digital-only bank may have been troubled with leadership changes and forced to reissue cards in early 2020, but the main problem that caused its downfall was the lack o...
29 June 2020 /payments /retail Fintech
John Cragg Chief Executive Officer at MYHSM
This really is the decade of the Fintech start-up. The payments world is experiencing an unprecedented rate of change; new payment methods and technologies are resulting in increasingly frictionless payment experiences, causing closer integration between online shopping and payments to match the user experience. The major financial institutions ...
24 June 2020 /payments /startups Fintech
Simon Wilson MD, Transaction Automation at valanticFSA
There are decades where it feels like nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades seem to happen. In just a few months, COVID-19 has swept around the planet, more than half the world’s population has been forced into lockdown, far too many lives have been lost and entire industries have shutdown. A crippling global recession seems inevitabl...
24 June 2020 /payments /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Retired Member
The global payments landscape is undergoing a dramatic evolution. Everything from IoT-enabled payment technology to AI, machine learning, and APIs are changing the way people can — and want to — pay. This shift is accompanied by a parallel evolution happening in the universe of fraud, where bad actors are matching pace with new technologies and d...
23 June 2020 /payments /devops Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Adedeji Olowe Trustee at Open Banking Nigeria
TrueLayer, the leading provider of financial APIs, has joined Open Banking Nigeria, the industry-formed advocacy group driving the adoption of open banking in Nigeria, to develop the open Application Programming Interfaces (API) standards for the Nigerian financial industry. This partnership, which would be with active participation of other indus...
22 June 2020 /payments /inclusion Open Banking
The financial services industry has seen ISO 20022 grow firmly over the last 15 years. What was then a small pocket of countries tackling migration has now become widespread adoption for domestic and international payments. And with momentum building, it is clear that IS0 20022 is playing a foundational role for banks in the transformation of their...
22 June 2020 /payments /regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Laura Francis Head of Brand and Marketing at Form3
How Covid has accelerated the Fintech/Bank collaboration model to become the new normal In these uncertain times, it is no secret that SMEs are some of the hardest hit by the economic impact of COVID-19. But help is at hand. Financial services providers are working to help SMEs navigate the current wave of uncertainty but are they doing enough? a...
22 June 2020 /payments /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
We truly live in a digital world. I can think of only a handful of things that we spend our time on that is not digital. For the rest, we are dependent on digital devices to interact with our world. Nowadays, these devices come in many different form factors, ranging from desktop computers, set-top boxes, voice-activated devices to mobile phones. ...
17 June 2020 /payments
Sunil Jhamb Founder and CEO at WLPayments
The payments market opportunity Ecommerce is big business. Emarketer has predicted that global ecommerce sales will reach $5 trillion by 2021, following sustained annual growth rates of more than 20%. In turn, this flourishing market generates billions of dollars of fees for the payments companies that enable it. Little wonder, then, that an array...
17 June 2020 /payments /retail The Payments Business
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